Ehrenbreitstein

Turner’s “Ehrenbreitstein,” a view of a hilltop fortress in Germany inspired by a passage in Byron’s “Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage.”

The Fortress of Ehrenbreitstein, which is properly the Citadel of Coblentz, stands on the other Side of the Rhine.

Junghuhn was a man fit for any emergency, as he had already shown on the banks of his native Rhine, when the very cells of Ehrenbreitstein, with which a chivalric adventure had made him acquainted in his youth, had for once been found too narrow to hold him.

The object of his choice was a young widow, Maria Magdalena, daughter of the head cook at the castle of Ehrenbreitstein.

And I thought of the airs of bargemen, Who tunefully recline, As they float by Ehrenbreitstein, In the twilight of the Rhine.