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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Cochem, Looking Upstream 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Cochem, Looking Upstream’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 6 Recto:
Cochem, Looking Upstream 1839
D28547
Turner Bequest CCXCI 6
Pencil on cream laid writing paper, 100 x 156 mm
Watermarked ‘[v d m] eulen’
Inscribed in red ink by Ruskin ‘6’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCXCI–6’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This slight and swiftly rendered sketch shows Cochem looking upstream on the Moselle, from a similar viewpoint to Tate D28543, D28545, D28546; Turner Bequest CCXCI 3a, 5, 5a. The ruined Castle Reichsburg is seen in profile atop a mount overlooking the city, while the steeple of Saint Martin’s Church is sketched summarily below with the Capuchin monastery behind it. This sketch and that on the folio opposite (Tate D28548; Turner Bequest CCXCI 6a) are close to Cochem from the North, a gouache and watercolour drawing executed on blue paper (Tate D20238; Turner Bequest CCXXI E).

Alice Rylance-Watson
August 2013

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Cochem, Looking Upstream 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-cochem-looking-upstream-r1150831, accessed 21 November 2024.