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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Schloss Rosenstein, near Stuttgart; Village and Hills; Sketches of a Figure and Hill with a Castle 1833

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Schloss Rosenstein, near Stuttgart; Village and Hills; Sketches of a Figure and Hill with a Castle’ 1833
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 43 Verso:
Schloss Rosenstein, near Stuttgart; Village and Hills; Sketches of a Figure and Hill with a Castle 1833
D29899
Turner Bequest CCXCVIII 43 a
Pencil on off-white lined paper, 110 x 165 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The principal view shows Schloss Rosenstein with a wooden bridge crossing the Neckar in the foreground (see Tate D29896; Turner Bequest CCXCVIII 42). Rosenstein Palace, situated in the outskirts of Stuttgart, was built in the 1820s as the summer residence of King Wilhelm I of Württemberg (1781–1864). The view below that of Schloss Rosenstein depicts a village on the Neckar with a church and surrounding hills; this is probably the same village as is depicted on the folio opposite (Tate D29900; Turner Bequest CCXCVIII 44). A sketch of a figure is visible at top right, and below it, a sketch of a castle atop a hill rendered with the sketchbook positioned in accordance with the foliation.

Alice Rylance-Watson
July 2017

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Schloss Rosenstein, near Stuttgart; Village and Hills; Sketches of a Figure and Hill with a Castle 1833 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, July 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-schloss-rosenstein-near-stuttgart-village-and-hills-sketches-r1203159, accessed 26 August 2025.