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Rendered roughly in blunt pencil, Turner has depicted the artillery citadel of Ehrenbreitstein crowning lofty heights in the background. The Heribert Tower or Heribertturm is pictured summarily in the foreground. The tower and the adjacent Church of the Holy Cross is shown in a highly detailed pencil drawing of 1817 (Tate
D12803; Turner Bequest CLX 53).
For other drawings of Ehrenbreitstein and Koblenz in this sketchbook see Tate
D28351,
D28352,
D28356,
D28437–D28447,
D28530–D28533; Turner Bequest CCXC 1, 1a, 3a, 44–49, 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).
For earlier depictions of Ehrenbreitstein see the
Waterloo and Rhine sketchbook of 1817 (Tate
D12781–D12783,
D12802–D12806,
D12809; Turner Bequest CLX 42–43, 52a–54a, 56); the
Rhine sketchbook of the same date (Tate
D12894,
D12899,
D12901–D12902,
D12908; Turner Bequest 7, 10, 11–11a, 15); the
Rivers Meuse and Moselle sketchbook of 1824 (Tate
D19785,
D19818–D19821,
D19826–D19830; Turner Bequest CCXVI 117 a, 134–135a, 138–140). There are also a number of fine colour drawings depicting the fortress and neighbouring Koblenz, some of which include: Tate
D24804,
D24809,
D24833,
D36138,
D36206; Turner Bequest CCLIX 239, 244, 268, CCCLXIV 285, 346.
Alice Rylance-Watson
July 2013
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