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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Alf, with Burg Arras in the Distance; Kloster Stuben and its Environs; Eller 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Alf, with Burg Arras in the Distance; Kloster Stuben and its Environs; Eller’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 12 Verso:
Alf, with Burg Arras in the Distance; Kloster Stuben and its Environs; Eller 1839
D28374
Turner Bequest CCXC 12 a
Pencil on flecked off-white wove paper, 163 x 100 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Arras’ top centre, ‘Alf’ top right; ‘Stuben’ centre towards top right; ‘[?Capel Pohe... Brut...]’ bottom right, ‘Eller’ bottom left
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The sketch at the uppermost register depicts Alf with the Burg Arras in the distance. It is similar to the previous two sketches of Alf (Tate D28372, D28373; Turner Bequest CCXC 11 a, 12) which formed the basis of a gouache, watercolour and pen and ink drawing of c.1839 (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford).1 Turner has annotated the drawing with ‘Alf’ and ‘Arras’. Below are sketches of Kloster Stuben, the monastery at Stuben, and Eller, a town upstream from Nehren and Senheim. These have also been inscribed by Turner: ‘Stuben’, ‘Eller’ and an indecipherable note which transcribes as ‘[?Capel Pohe... Brut...]’.

Alice Rylance-Watson
July 2013

1
Andrew Wilton, J.M.W. Turner: His Life and Work, Fribourg 1979, p.421 no.1023.

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Alf, with Burg Arras in the Distance; Kloster Stuben and its Environs; Eller 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-alf-with-burg-arras-in-the-distance-kloster-stuben-and-its-r1150659, accessed 21 November 2024.