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

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

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Braubach and the Marxburg, Looking Upstream’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 88 Recto
Braubach and the Marxburg, Looking Upstream 1839
D28522
Turner Bequest CCXC 84
Pencil on flecked off-white wove paper, 100 x 163 mm
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘84’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CCXC–84’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This sketch shows the town of Braubach with the medieval Castle Marxburg built into the cliffs of the Rhine Gorge above. See also Tate D28516, D28520–D28521, D28523; Turner Bequest CCXC 82b, 83–83a, 84a.

Alice Rylance-Watson
July 2013

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Braubach and the Marxburg, Looking Upstream 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-upstream-r1150802, accessed 23 April 2024.