Joseph Mallord William Turner Two Views of Cochem, Looking Downstream 1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 125 Recto:
Two Views of Cochem, Looking Downstream 1824
D19796
Turner Bequest CCXVI 123
Turner Bequest CCXVI 123
Pencil on white wove paper, 78 x 118 mm
Watermark ‘smith & [allnut] | 18[22]’
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘123’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CCXVI–123’ bottom right
Watermark ‘smith & [allnut] | 18[22]’
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘123’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CCXVI–123’ bottom right
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].
This loose and freely executed sketch shows Cochem from a southerly perspective, looking downstream on the Moselle. At top right Turner has produced a smaller, slighter sketch of the town, squared off from the rest of the page. Visible is Cochem’s Reichsburg Castle, the Plague Chapel of St Roch, and the Church of St Martin in the town centre. For further depictions of Cochem in this sketchbook see Tate D19792–D19795; Turner Bequest CCXVI 121–122a. 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 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