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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Rhine Castles Including the Marxburg, Martinsburg, Burg Lahneck and Burg Katz from beyond the Lorelei 1833

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Rhine Castles Including the Marxburg, Martinsburg, Burg Lahneck and Burg Katz from beyond the Lorelei’ 1833
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 38 Recto:
Rhine Castles Including the Marxburg, Martinsburg, Burg Lahneck and Burg Katz from beyond the Lorelei 1833
D29668
Turner Bequest CCXCVI 37
Pencil on cream wove paper, 185 x 113 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘V’, top left, ‘Marksburg’, ‘Lahnstin’ right, ‘Katz’ bottom left
Inscribed in red ink by Ruskin ‘37’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCXCVI 37’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
These sketches were taken from beyond the Lorelei, a slate cliff on the eastern bank of the Rhine which soars some four hundred and thirty-three feet above the waterline. The sketches show the Marxburg (inscribed ‘Marksburg’) and the Martinsburg at Oberlahnstein in the sky to the right. The remaining sketches depict the Burg Lahneck overlooking the confluence of the Lahn and Rhine at Lahnstein (inscribed ‘Lahnstin’), and the Burg Katz (inscribed ‘Katz’) at rear.

Alice Rylance-Watson
February 2017

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Rhine Castles Including the Marxburg, Martinsburg, Burg Lahneck and Burg Katz from beyond the Lorelei 1833 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, February 2017, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, March 2023, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-rhine-castles-including-the-marxburg-martinsburg-burg-r1202966, accessed 02 August 2025.