Joseph Mallord William Turner

This rough and summary sketch represents the confluence of the Moselle and Rhine Rivers from a high viewpoint at the Enhrenbreitstein fortress. One of the towers of St Castor’s basilica is in the middle distance, towards the right.1

For other drawings of Ehrenbreitstein and Koblenz in this sketchbook see Tate D28351– D28353, D28356, D28437–D28444, D28446–D28447, D28530–D28533; Turner Bequest CCXC 1–2, 3a, 44–47a, 48a–49, 88–89a. See also Enhrenbreitstein in depicted in two other sketchbooks belonging to the 1839 tour: the First Mossel and Oxford (Tate D28297, D28301, D28306, D28316, D28317; Turner Bequest CCLXXXIX 4, 6, 7, 8a, 13a, 14) and the Cochem to Coblenz – Home (Tate D28603, D28605–D28607; Turner Bequest CCXCI 34a, 35a–36a).