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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Wiesbaden from the Sonnenburg, with Separate Details of its Cupolas and Towers 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Wiesbaden from the Sonnenburg, with Separate Details of its Cupolas and Towers’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 68 Verso:
Wiesbaden from the Sonnenburg, with Separate Details of its Cupolas and Towers 1839
D28486
Turner Bequest CCXC 68 a
Pencil on flecked off-white wove paper, 100 x 163 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Wi’ bottom left
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This slight and summary sketch shows the city of Wiesbaden take from a high viewpoint at the ruins of the medieval Sonnenburg Castle (see Tate D28478–D28482; Turner Bequest CCXC 64a–66a). The cupolas and towers of the city are roughly jotted in at the top.
Wiesbaden was a popular spa resort at the time of Turner’s visit, home to an array of thermal springs where visitors from all over Europe flocked to take the medicinal waters (see Tate D28476; Turner Bequest CCXC 63 a).

Alice Rylance-Watson
July 2013

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Wiesbaden from the Sonnenburg, with Separate Details of its Cupolas and Towers 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-wiesbaden-from-the-sonnenburg-with-separate-details-of-its-r1150769, accessed 23 September 2024.