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 Sailing Boats with Awnings, a Crock and a Barrel; Figures in a Boat with ?Klotten in the Distance, Looking Upstream; The Ruined Convent at Stuben, Kloster Stuben (plus a Larger Sketch of the Ruin) 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Sailing Boats with Awnings, a Crock and a Barrel; Figures in a Boat with ?Klotten in the Distance, Looking Upstream; The Ruined Convent at Stuben, Kloster Stuben (plus a Larger Sketch of the Ruin)’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 4 Verso:
Sailing Boats with Awnings, a Crock and a Barrel; Figures in a Boat with ?Klotten in the Distance, Looking Upstream; The Ruined Convent at Stuben, Kloster Stuben (plus a Larger Sketch of the Ruin) 1839
D28298
Turner Bequest CCLXXXIX 4 a
Pencil on white wove drawing paper, 235 x 140 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Blue’ bottom left; ‘8 Herr’ top left
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
These rough and swiftly rendered jottings are records of various local scenes encountered by Turner as he sailed the Moselle. The artist has made note of boats with their awnings up, a crock and barrel, and other light river craft. There is also a slight sketch of figures in a boat in front of what is thought to be the village of Klotten. The ruins of the late fifteenth-century Augustinian Convent at Stuben are sketched on the opposite side of the page, in loose and abbreviated line.1 Turner had visited the convent during his 1824 tour of the Moselle region, making sketches in the Rivers Meuse and Moselle and the Moselle (or Rhine) sketchbooks (Tate D19780–19782, D20165, D20172; Turner Bequest CCXVI 115–116, CCXIX 4, 11).

Alice Rylance-Watson
August 2013

1
‘Die Klosterruine Stuben’, Bremm Info, http://www.bremm.info/fl_xga.htm?/kloster.htm, accessed 8 August 2013.

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Sailing Boats with Awnings, a Crock and a Barrel; Figures in a Boat with ?Klotten in the Distance, Looking Upstream; The Ruined Convent at Stuben, Kloster Stuben (plus a Larger Sketch of the Ruin) 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-sailing-boats-with-awnings-a-crock-and-a-barrel-figures-in-a-r1150579, accessed 22 July 2024.