J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Distant View of Coblenz and Ehrenbreitstein, Looking down the Rhine from the West Bank on the Road to Kapellen 1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Distant View of Coblenz and Ehrenbreitstein, Looking down the Rhine from the West Bank on the Road to Kapellen’ 1824 (Inside back cover of sketchbook)
Inside back cover of sketchbook
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Inside Back Cover:
Distant View of Coblenz and Ehrenbreitstein, Looking down the Rhine from the West Bank on the Road to Kapellen 1824
D20161
Turner Bequest CCXVIII 23
Pencil and watercolour on white wove paper, 220 x 291 mm
Inscribed in red ink by Ruskin ‘23’ bottom right
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram towards bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCXVIII–23’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Drawing from a point on the Rhine in the direction of its confluence with the Moselle, Turner has recorded a distant view of the city of Koblenz at left and the fortress of Ehrenbrietstein atop the cliff at right. At Koblenz, the delicately wrought profiles of the Basilica of St Kastor, Florinskirche, and the twin-towered Church of Our Lady are visible.
For earlier depictions of Ehrenbreitstein and Koblenz see the Waterloo and Rhine sketchbook of 1817 (Tate D12781–D12783, D12802–D12806, D12809; Turner Bequest CLX 42–43, 52a–54a, 56) and the Rhine sketchbook of the same date (Tate D12894, D12899, D12901–D12902, D12908; Turner Bequest 7, 10, 11–11a, 15). For other 1824 drawings, see the Rivers Meuse and Moselle sketchbook (Tate D19785, D19818–D19821, D19826–D19830; Turner Bequest CCXVI 117a, 134–135a, 140).

Alice Rylance-Watson
December 2013

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Distant View of Coblenz and Ehrenbreitstein, Looking down the Rhine from the West Bank on the Road to Kapellen 1824 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, December 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, April 2015, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-distant-view-of-coblenz-and-ehrenbreitstein-looking-down-the-r1174900, accessed 25 April 2024.