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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1830-35 Annual tourist > Northern Germany, the Elbe and Prague ... > Prague, Nuremberg, Frankfurt and Rhine ... > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Burg Sooneck 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Burg Sooneck’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 13 Recto:
Burg Sooneck 1835
D30655
Turner Bequest CCCIV 13
Pencil on cream laid paper, 118 x 190 mm
Watermark ‘[jan h]onig’ | ‘[jh]&z’
Inscribed in red ink by Ruskin ‘13’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCCIV–13’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is a view of Burg Sooneck, a medieval castle overlooking the Rhine. A river barge can be seen in the foreground.
For more sketches of Burg Sooneck see Tate D12821, D12825, D25242, D25304, D29699, D29731, D30576, D30660, D33300; Turner Bequest CLX 62, 64, CCLXIII 120, 182, CCXCVI 53a, 69a, CCCIII 60a, CCCIV 15a, CCCXXX 41; see also a watercolour of the castle produced in 1817 (British Museum, London).1

Alice Rylance-Watson
November 2015

1
Andrew Wilton, J.M.W. Turner: His Life and Work, Fribourg 1979, p.377 no.671.

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Burg Sooneck 1835 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, November 2015, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, August 2017, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-burg-sooneck-r1187036, accessed 17 May 2024.