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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Coblenz and Ehrenbreitstein from the South 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Coblenz and Ehrenbreitstein from the South’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 45 Verso:
Coblenz and Ehrenbreitstein from the South 1839
D28440
Turner Bequest CCXC 45 a
Pencil on flecked off-white wove paper, 100 x 163 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This rough sketch depicts Koblenz and the Ehrenbreitstein from the south. The fortress is at top right and below it, the ornamental spire of a tower.
For other drawings of Ehrenbreitstein and Koblenz in this sketchbook see Tate D28351– D28353, D28356, D28437–D28439, D28441–D28447, D28530–D28533; Turner Bequest CCXC 1–2, 3a, 44–45, 46–49, 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

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Coblenz and Ehrenbreitstein from the South 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-the-south-r1150723, accessed 22 September 2024.