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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1836-47 Modern painter > The Second Meuse-Moselle Tour 1839 > First Mossel and Oxford Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Boats, One with Flags; Cochem, Looking Upstream; Burg Bischofstein, Looking Upstream 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Boats, One with Flags; Cochem, Looking Upstream; Burg Bischofstein, Looking Upstream’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 15 Recto:
Boats, One with Flags; Cochem, Looking Upstream; Burg Bischofstein, Looking Upstream 1839
D28319
Turner Bequest CCLXXXIX 15
Pencil on white wove drawing paper, 235 x 140 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘[...] in Road’ centre towards bottom
Inscribed in red ink ‘15’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCLXXXIX–15’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Here Turner has made a series of slight sketches of Cochem, incorporating the Reichsburg, the church of St Martin, the Burg Bischofstein, and the Pauluskapelle. At the uppermost register are rough and swiftly rendered jottings of two boats, one with flags raised.

Alice Rylance-Watson
August 2013

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Boats, One with Flags; Cochem, Looking Upstream; Burg Bischofstein, Looking Upstream 1839 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, August 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, November 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-boats-one-with-flags-cochem-looking-upstream-burg-r1150600, accessed 22 November 2024.