Joseph Mallord William Turner Two Views of Cochem, Looking Downstream, One Accompanied by a Separate Sketch of the Spire of St Martin's Church 1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
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Two Views of Cochem, Looking Downstream, One Accompanied by a Separate Sketch of the Spire of St Martin’s Church 1824
D19795
Turner Bequest CCXVI 122 a
Turner Bequest CCXVI 122 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 78 x 118 mm
Watermark ‘smith & [allnut] | 18[22]’
Watermark ‘smith & [allnut] | 18[22]’
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
References
1909
A.J. Finberg, A Complete Inventory of the Drawings of the Turner Bequest, London 1909, vol.II, p.674, as ‘Beilstein; town and castle’.
1974
Martin Butlin, Andrew Wilton and John Gage, Turner 1775–1851, exhibition catalogue, Royal Academy, London 1974, p.115 no.373.
1975
Graham Reynolds, Turner 1775–1851: zhivopis', risunok, akvarel', exhibition catalogue, Hermitage Museum, Leningrad 1975, p.35 no.42.
1976
Werner Hofmann, Andrew Wilton, Siegmar Hosten and others, William Turner und die Landschaft seiner Zeit, exhibition catalogue, Hamburger Kunsthalle 1976, p.134 no.75.
1982
Lindsay Stainton and Richard S. Schneiderman, J.M.W. Turner Watercolors from the British Museum, exhibition catalogue, Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, Athens 1982, p.46.
1984
Gérard Thill, Jean-Claude Muller and Jean Luc Koltz, J.M.W. Turner in Luxembourg and its neighbourhood, exhibition catalogue, Musée de l’Etat, Luxembourg 1984, p.109 no.43.
1991
Cecilia Powell, Turner’s Rivers of Europe: The Rhine, Meuse and Mosel, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery, London 1991, p.43 notes 27 and 29 [p.60].
1995
Cecilia Powell, Turner in Germany, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery, London 1995, p.32 notes 12 and 14 [p.77].
Rendered with fine and nimble line, these sketches depict the picturesque town of Cochem on the Moselle. Perched atop the summit of the conical mount is the ruined Reichsburg Castle, while the ancient plague chapel, dedicated to St Roch, is situated a little way down the slope close to the foot of the rock at bottom left. A small linear sketch of Cochem, left relatively undeveloped, is squared off at top right; it contains within it a tiny detail of the spire of St Martin’s Church, a striking Baroque building shown again in a later gouache and watercolour drawing of 1839 (Tate D20253; Turner Bequest CCXXI T).
For further depictions of Cochem in this sketchbook see Tate D19792–D19794, D19796; Turner Bequest CCXVI 121–122, 123. For later views, see Tate D28318–D28319, D28318–D28319, D28358–D28363, D28540–D28549; Turner Bequest CCLXXXIX 3–3a, 14a–15, CCXC 4a–7, CCXCI 2–7. See also Turner’s watercolour and gouache drawings of the town on Tate D20238, D24723, D24725, D24806, D28948, D28950, D28963, D28974, D28986, D28987, D28992, D29000, D29020; Turner Bequest CCXXI E, CCLIX 158, 160, 241, CCXCII 1, 3, 16, 27, 39, 40, 45, 51, 69.
Alice Rylance-Watson
May 2014
How to cite
Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Two Views of Cochem, Looking Downstream, One Accompanied by a Separate Sketch of the Spire of St Martin’s Church 1824 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2014, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, April 2015, https://www