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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner

Joseph Mallord William Turner Burg Lahneck; the River Rhine with a Cross and Tower 1817

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Burg Lahneck; the River Rhine with a Cross and Tower’ 1817
Folio 81 Verso:
Burg Lahneck; the River Rhine with a Cross and Tower 1817
D12659
Turner Bequest CLIX 81a
Pencil on white wove paper, 56 x 106 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Lonak’ above right of centre, and ’Rin’ or ‘Ren’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
For Burg Lahneck in this book see notes to folio 80 verso (D12657). Here, inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, Turner has sketched the castle on the upper part of the page. Below is a wide view of an unidentified stretch of the Rhine with a roadside cross, left, and a tower, right.

David Blayney Brown
June 2025

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Burg Lahneck; the River Rhine with a Cross and Tower 1817’, catalogue entry, June 2025, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, June 2026, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/burg-lahneck-the-river-rhine-with-a-cross-and-tower-r1212022, accessed 01 August 2026.