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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The Marxburg, Seen in the Distance Looking Upstream, with Rhens on the Right 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Marxburg, Seen in the Distance Looking Upstream, with Rhens on the Right’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 88 Verso
The Marxburg, Seen in the Distance Looking Upstream, with Rhens on the Right 1839
D28523
Turner Bequest CCXC 84 a
Pencil on flecked off-white wove paper, 100 x 163 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Marx’ | ‘Smoke the Light the Yellow’ top right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This swiftly rendered sketch shows the Castle Marxburg atop the cliff in the distance and the town of Rhens, upstream from Braubach, on the right. Turner has annotated the view with the inscription ‘Marx’, to represent Marxburg, and a note on the atmospheric qualities of the scene: ‘smoke’ and ‘the Light the Yellow’.

Alice Rylance-Watson
July 2013

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘The Marxburg, Seen in the Distance Looking Upstream, with Rhens on the Right 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-marxburg-seen-in-the-distance-looking-upstream-with-r1150803, accessed 18 April 2024.