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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Bornhofen, Burg Sterrenberg and Burg Liebenstein, Looking Downstream 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Bornhofen, Burg Sterrenberg and Burg Liebenstein, Looking Downstream’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 83 Recto
Bornhofen, Burg Sterrenberg and Burg Liebenstein, Looking Downstream 1839
D28515
Turner Bequest CCXC 82 a
Pencil on flecked off-white wove paper, 100 x 163 mm
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘82’ followed by ‘a’ in black ink in another hand, top right
Stamped in black ‘CCXC–82’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This rough and swiftly rendered sketch shows the precipitous cliffs of the Rhine Gorge at Bornhofen with the Castles Sterrenberg and Liebenstein at centre.
For other sketches of these castles see Tate D28511, D28513, D28514; Turner Bequest CCXC 80, 81, 81a.

Alice Rylance-Watson
July 2013

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Bornhofen, Burg Sterrenberg and Burg Liebenstein, Looking Downstream 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-bornhofen-burg-sterrenberg-and-burg-liebenstein-looking-r1150798, accessed 19 April 2024.