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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner ?The Castle of Attinghausen, near Amsteg, with the Bristenstock 1802

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?The Castle of Attinghausen, near Amsteg, with the Bristenstock’ 1802
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 34 Recto:
?The Castle of Attinghausen, near Amsteg, with the Bristenstock 1802
D04690
Turner Bequest LXXVI 34
Pencil on white laid paper, 156 x 201 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘34’ bottom right, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘LXXVI 34’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This, perhaps taken near Amsteg, and showing the ruins of the castle of Attinghausen and, as Finberg suggested, the conical form of the Bristenstock is probably another of the various drawings of the Reuss valley in this sketchbook; for these see note to folio 30 (D04686). For another view perhaps of the Bristenstock, see folio 33 (D04689).
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David Blayney Brown
March 2004

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘?The Castle of Attinghausen, near Amsteg, with the Bristenstock 1802 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 2004, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2012, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-the-castle-of-attinghausen-near-amsteg-with-the-bristenstock-r1133165, accessed 16 April 2024.