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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8

Joseph Mallord William Turner The Sonnenburg, near Wiesbaden 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 64 Verso:
The Sonnenburg, near Wiesbaden 1839
D28478
Turner Bequest CCXC 64 a
Pencil on flecked off-white wove paper, 100 x 163 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Here Turner depicts the ruins of Burg Sonnenburg, situated in a north-eastern borough of Wiesbaden. The citadel was built in the earlier twelfth century by the Counts of the House of Nassau in order to protect Wiesbaden from the neighbouring Lords of Eppstein (see Tate D28448; Turner Bequest CCXC 49 a).1Sonnenburg is depicted on D28479–D28482; Turner Bequest CCXC 65–66a.
The Thalkirche (Valley Church), which dates to the fifteenth century, can be seen in the middle distance.

Alice Rylance-Watson
July 2013

1
‘Burg Sonnenburg’, Wiesbaden, http://www.wiesbaden.de/en/tourism/sightseeing/buildings/Burg_Sonnenberg.php, accessed 25 July 2013.

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘The Sonnenburg, near Wiesbaden 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-the-sonnenburg-near-wiesbaden-r1150761, accessed 28 March 2024.