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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Cochem and the Winneberg, Looking Downstream from the Burg 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Cochem and the Winneberg, Looking Downstream from the Burg’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 7 Recto:
Cochem and the Winneberg, Looking Downstream from the Burg 1839
D28363
Turner Bequest CCXC 7
Pencil on flecked off-white wove paper, 100 x 163 mm
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘6’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CCXC–6’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Rendered with agile line, this detailed drawing represents the Parish Church of St Martin, a spired chapel and various other buildings with gabled and mansard roofs. In the distance at top right are the ruins of the thirteenth-century Winneburg Castle, located, as Bartholomew Stritch writes, ‘at the extremity of a wild valley, or gorge, traversed by the Endert’ and ‘upon the pinnacle of a lofty rock’.1 The castle was the ‘original family seat of the barons of Matternich, Winneburg, [and] Belstein’ but during the Nine Years’ War it was besieged and destroyed by French troops.2 It remains in ruin to this day.

Alice Rylance-Watson
July 2013

1
Bartholomew Stritch, The Meuse, the Moselle, and the Rhine; or, A six weeks' tour through the finest river scenery in Europe, by B.S., London 1845, p.58.
2
Ibid.

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Cochem and the Winneberg, Looking Downstream from the Burg 1839 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, July 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-cochem-and-the-winneberg-looking-downstream-from-the-burg-r1150648, accessed 21 November 2024.