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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1836-47 Modern painter > The Second Meuse-Moselle Tour 1839 > First Mossel and Oxford Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Klotten and Burg Coraidelstein, Looking Downstream 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Klotten and Burg Coraidelstein, Looking Downstream’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 10 Recto:
Klotten and Burg Coraidelstein, Looking Downstream 1839
D28309
Turner Bequest CCLXXXIX 10
Pencil on white wove drawing paper, 235 x 140 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Clotten’, ‘Moss’ bottom right
Inscribed in red ink ‘10’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCLXXXIX–10’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The town of Klotten lies on the River Moselle, surrounded by precipitous slate slopes, near the city of Cochem. Here Turner depicts it from the river, the view incorporating the medieval Burg Coraidelstein and the Parish Church of Saint-Maximin. The inscription ‘Moss’ next to ‘Clotten’ is short-hand for ‘Mosel’. See also Tate D28294; Turner Bequest CCLXXXIX 2 a
For further views of Klotten in this sketchbook see Tate D28344; Turner Bequest CCLXXXIX 27a; see also the 1839 Cochem to Coblenz – Home sketchbook (Tate D28550–D28553; Turner Bequest CCXCI 7a–9). For the 1839 gouache drawings see Tate D20237, D28967; Turner Bequest CCXXI D, CCXCII 78.

Alice Rylance-Watson
August 2013

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Klotten and Burg Coraidelstein, Looking Downstream 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-klotten-and-burg-coraidelstein-looking-downstream-r1150590, accessed 21 November 2024.