Gouache and watercolour on paper
Meuse-Moselle Gouache and Watercolour Drawings
Meuse-Moselle Gouache and Watercolour Drawings
The Second Meuse-Moselle Tour 1839
The Second Meuse-Moselle Tour 1839
Germany
Tate Collection
Works with images
Joseph Mallord William Turner
Turner Bequest
Collection
Turner owned by Tate
Catalogued Turner works on paper
<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/joseph-mallord-william-turner-558" aria-label="More by Joseph Mallord William Turner" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Joseph Mallord William Turner</a>
Mayen in Eifel
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
architecture
castle
cities, towns, villages (non-UK)
countries and continents
Eifel
Germany
hill
landscape
Mayen, Genovevaburg
military
natural features (non-UK)
places
rocky
sunset
times of the day
townscape, distant
townscapes / man-made features
<p>Turner passed Mayen while travelling by road between the Rhine and the Mosel. His gouache study is dominated by the vast black hulk of the Genovevaburg, a fortified castle built between 1280 and 1311. In the foreground it shows the medieval town walls, with the Brückentor at lower right, above which can be seen St Clement's church with its twisted spire. Late nineteenth-century photographs show Mayen very much as Turner did, but the visitor there today finds it sadly altered: most of the town was destroyed in the Second World War and it has subsequently been reconstructed and expanded almost beyond recognition.</p><p><em>Gallery label, August 2004</em></p>
paper unique gouache watercolour
Mayen in the Eifel
support: 141 × 188 mm
Accepted by the nation as part of the <a href="/search?gid=999999781" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Turner Bequest</a> 1856
<p>Turner passed Mayen while travelling by road between the Rhine and the Mosel. His <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/g/gouache" title="Glossary definition for 'Gouache'"><span>gouache</span></a> study is dominated by the vast black hulk of the Genovevaburg, a fortified castle built between 1280 and 1311. In the foreground it shows the medieval town walls, with the Brückentor at lower right, above which can be seen St Clement's church with its twisted spire. Late nineteenth-century <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/photograph" title="Glossary definition for 'Photograph'"><span>photographs</span></a> show Mayen very much as Turner did, but the visitor there today finds it sadly altered: most of the town was destroyed in the Second World War and it has subsequently been reconstructed and expanded almost beyond recognition.</p>
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architecture castle cities, towns, villages (non-UK) countries and continents Eifel Germany hill landscape Mayen, Genovevaburg military natural features (non-UK) places rocky sunset times of the day townscape, distant townscapes / man-made features
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