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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A View of ?Ehrenbreitstein 1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A View of ?Ehrenbreitstein’ 1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 168 Recto:
A View of ?Ehrenbreitstein 1824
D19878
Turner Bequest CCXVI 162
Pencil on white wove paper, 78 x 118 mm
Watermark ‘[smith &] allnut | [18]22’
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘162’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CCXVI–162’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This sketch is part of a short series of jottings which are all of a piece in terms of handling and subject matter (see Tate D19876–D19877, D19879–D19880, D19882; Turner Bequest CCXVI 161–161a, 162a–163, 165). Cecilia Powell writes that this series of sketches was taken as Turner made his way by canal boat from Ghent through Bruges to Ostend.1 The topography and form of the fortification, however, do not appear Flemish to this cataloguer; rather, they appear reminiscent of the fortress of Ehrenbreitstein at Koblenz, a citadel overlooking the confluence of the Moselle and Rhine Rivers in Germany.

Alice Rylance-Watson
June 2014

1
Powell 1991, p.43 note 32 [p.60]

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘A View of ?Ehrenbreitstein 1824 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, June 2014, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, April 2015, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-a-view-of-ehrenbreitstein-r1174673, accessed 25 April 2024.