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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Ehrenbreitstein, Looking up the Rhine 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Ehrenbreitstein, Looking up the Rhine’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 36 Verso:
Ehrenbreitstein, Looking up the Rhine 1839
D28607
Turner Bequest CCXCI 36 a
Pencil on cream laid writing paper, 100 x 156 mm
Watermarked with French imperial eagle
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Raft of Wood’ and ‘Coblen’ bottom left
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The principal sketch is of Ehrenbreitstein citadel at Koblenz, looking up the Rhine. Above and below it are isolated cursory jottings which show a tower and a river scene with notes inscribed reading: ‘Raft of Wood’ and ‘Coblen’ (for Koblenz).

Alice Rylance-Watson
August 2013

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Ehrenbreitstein, Looking up the Rhine 1839 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, August 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-ehrenbreitstein-looking-up-the-rhine-r1150891, accessed 20 September 2024.