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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Distant Hills; Ehrenbreitstein from the Petersberg, with the Monument to General Marceau in the Foreground 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Distant Hills; Ehrenbreitstein from the Petersberg, with the Monument to General Marceau in the Foreground’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 14 Recto:
Distant Hills; Ehrenbreitstein from the Petersberg, with the Monument to General Marceau in the Foreground 1839
D28317
Turner Bequest CCLXXXIX 14
Pencil on white wove drawing paper, 140 x 235 mm
Inscribed in red ink ‘14’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCLXXXIX–14’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Rendered in faint and slight line Turner has drawn a hilly landscape parallel to the short edge of the page. The principal sketches are of Ehrenbreitstein, taken from the Petersburg at Koblenz, with the monument to the French Revolutionary General François Séverin Marceau-Desgraviers (1769–1796) in the foreground (see Tate D28316; Turner Bequest CCLXXXIX 13a). These are orientated inversely relative to the foliation.

Alice Rylance-Watson
August 2013

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Distant Hills; Ehrenbreitstein from the Petersberg, with the Monument to General Marceau in the Foreground 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-distant-hills-ehrenbreitstein-from-the-petersberg-with-the-r1150598, accessed 25 April 2024.