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Cologne

Maker

(artist)
1775-1851

Title

Cologne

Date of Production

(circa) 1832 - 1833

Medium

graphite, watercolour and bodycolour with scraping on board

Dimensions

Height: 24.7 cm
Width: 19.5 cm

Accession Number

D.2007.DS.44

Mode of Acquisition

Dorothy Scharf, bequest, 2007 (March)

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords

Label Text

Turner based this imaginary view of Cologne on sketches made during his trip to Germany in 1817. The delicate watercolour vignette is a design for the frontispiece of the sixteenth volume of The Works of Lord Byron. This volume contains Byron’s poem Don Juan, whose protagonist passes through the city on his wanderings. Knowing that his watercolour would be reproduced in black and white, Turner rendered the scene in exceptionally fine detail that could easily be translated by the engraver’s tools.

Notes

The print after this (by E. Finden) was published in April 1833 as the frontispiece to volume XVI of Lord Byron's 'Life and Works'.

Provenance

William Leech; his sale, Christie's (London), 21 May 1887, lot 73; purchased there by Thomas Agnew & Sons (London); purchased there by Robert Durning Holt (1832-1908), 1887; his cousin, Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence (1837-1914); T.F. Blackwell; his sale, Christie's (London), 29 November 1946, lot 68; purchased there by Mitchell; anonymous sale, Christie's (London), 14 June 1966, lot 179; purchased there by Daly; anonymous sale, Christie's (London), 21 November 1978, lot 80; purchased there by Leger Galleries (London); purchased there by R.A. Shuck, 1979; purchased from him by Leger Galleries (London); purchased there by Miss Dorothy Scharf, London (1942-2004), 1985; Scharf Bequest 2007

Exhibition History

A Dialogue with Nature: Romantic Landscapes from Britain and Germany, The Morgan Library, New York, 30/05/2014-07/09/2014

A Dialogue with Nature: Romantic Landscapes from Britain and Germany, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 30/01/2014-27/04/2014

Paths to Fame - Turner's Watercolour Landscapes, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 30/10/2008-25/01/2009 ...More

Paths to Fame - Turner's Watercolour Landscapes, Wordsworth Trust, Grasmere, England, 16/07/2008-12/10/2008

102nd Annual Exhibition of Watercolours and Drawings, Thomas Agnew & Sons, London, 20/01/1975-21/02/1975

Exhibition of Water-colour Drawings by Turner, Cox and De Wint, Thomas Agnew & Sons, London, 1924 ...Less

Literature

Paths to Fame: Turner Watercolours from The Courtauld Gallery, Wordsworth Trust; Courtauld Gallery, 2008-2009
no. 25
ill. on p. 129

Turner and Byron, Tate Gallery, 1992
p. 116, under no. 79

Wilton, Andrew, The life and work of J.M.W. Turner, London, 1979
no. 1495
ill. ...More

Oppé, A.P., The Water-colours of Turner, Cox and De Wint, London, 1925
no. 89

Armstrong, Sir Walter, Turner, London, Thomas Agnew & Sons, 1902
p. 239 ...Less

Inscriptions

Inscription: none.

Collector's mark: none.

Watermark: none.

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