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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Braubach and the Marxburg, Looking Downstream 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Braubach and the Marxburg, Looking Downstream’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 87 Recto:
Braubach and the Marxburg, Looking Downstream 1839
D28520
Turner Bequest CCXC 83
Pencil on flecked off-white wove paper, 100 x 163 mm
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘83’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CCXC–83’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Here Turner depicts the medieval Marxburg Castle, built atop the precipitous cliffs of the Rhine Gorge overlooking the town of Braubach. For other sketches of the Marxburg in this book see Tate D28516, D28521–D28523; Turner Bequest CCXC 82b, 83a–84a. For earlier representations see the Waterloo and Rhine and Rhine sketchbooks of 1817 (Tate D12801, D12851, D12913, D12974; CLX 52, 77, CLXI 19, 49). See also two highly finished watercolours of the Marxburg produced in 1817 (Indianapolis Museum of Art) and 1820 (British Museum, London).1

Alice Rylance-Watson
July 2013

1
Andrew Wilton, J.M.W. Turner: His Life and Work, Fribourg 1979, p.376 no.653 and p.p.380 no.692 respectively.

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Braubach and the Marxburg, 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-braubach-and-the-marxburg-looking-downstream-r1150800, accessed 25 April 2024.