Joseph Mallord William Turner

The Leyen Burg, Looking Upstream

1839

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Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of
Cochem to Coblenz - Home Sketchbook
Medium
Graphite on paper
Dimensions
Support: 100 × 156 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D28588
Turner Bequest CCXCI 27

Catalogue entry

This sketch of the town of Gondorf and the Leyen Burg is one of a series of eight pencil studies Turner made of these subjects from vantage points the Moselle and inland (Tate D28583–D28587; Turner Bequest CCXCI 24a–26a). Part of the castle is shown here, giving onto the river’s bank, as Turner sailed upstream.

Alice Rylance-Watson
August 2013

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