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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The Klemenskapelle and Burg Reichenstein; Burg Rheinstein, Looking Upstream 1833

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Klemenskapelle and Burg Reichenstein; Burg Rheinstein, Looking Upstream’ 1833
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 71 Verso:
The Klemenskapelle and Burg Reichenstein; Burg Rheinstein, Looking Upstream 1833
D29733
Turner Bequest CCXCVI 70a
Pencil on cream wove paper, 185 x 113 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Reinstein’ bottom left (inversely), ‘Road’ centre left (inversely)
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘20’ bottom left (inversely)
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Burg Rheinstein is depicted below the inscription ‘Reinstein’ parallel to the gutter of the sketchbook. Perched on a steep cliff overlooking the Rhine, the Burg Rheinstein is a few moments upstream from the Burg Reichenstein, which is depicted in the remaining sketches (see Tate D29729; Turner Bequest CCXCVI 68a). The Klemenskappelle, a small chapel dedicated to St Clement, can be seen clearly to the left of Burg Reichenstein in one of the views.

Alice Rylance-Watson
February 2017

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘The Klemenskapelle and Burg Reichenstein; Burg Rheinstein, Looking Upstream 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-the-klemenskapelle-and-burg-reichenstein-burg-rheinstein-r1203031, accessed 04 May 2025.