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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Coblenz and Ehrenbreitstein from just South of the Fort 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Coblenz and Ehrenbreitstein from just South of the Fort’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 44 Verso:
Coblenz and Ehrenbreitstein from just South of the Fort 1839
D28438
Turner Bequest CCXC 44 a
Pencil on flecked off-white wove paper, 100 x 163 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Well’ bottom left
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This slight and roughly rendered sketch depicts the fortress of Ehrenbreitstein, or Festung Ehrenbreitstein, which crowns the lofty heights in the background. A citadel has dominated this site on the east bank of the Rhine opposite the town of Koblenz since the eleventh century.1 Turner has inscribed the word ‘Well’ below the scene in the foreground.
For other drawings of Ehrenbreitstein and Koblenz in this sketchbook see Tate D28351– D28353, D28356, D28437, D28439–D28447, D28530–D28533; Turner Bequest CCXC 1–2, 3a, 44, 45–49, 88–89a. See also Enhrenbreitstein in depicted in two other sketchbooks belonging to the 1839 tour: the First Mossel and Oxford (Tate D28297, D28301, D28306, D28316, D28317; Turner Bequest CCLXXXIX 4, 6, 7, 8a, 13a, 14) and the Cochem to Coblenz – Home (Tate D28603, D28605–D28607; Turner Bequest CCXCI 34a, 35a–36a).

Alice Rylance-Watson
July 2013

1
‘Festung Ehrenbreitstein’, Koblenz-Touristik, http://www.koblenz-touristik.de/en/places-of-interest/buildings-and-places/festung-ehrenbreitstein.html, accessed 11 July 2013.

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Coblenz and Ehrenbreitstein from just South of the Fort 1839 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, July 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-coblenz-and-ehrenbreitstein-from-just-south-of-the-fort-r1150721, accessed 25 April 2024.