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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The Marienburg; Zell; The Marienburg 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Marienburg; Zell; The Marienburg’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 15 Recto:
The Marienburg; Zell; The Marienburg 1839
D28379
Turner Bequest CCXC 15
Pencil on flecked off-white wove paper, 163 x 100 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Wood’, ‘Road’ at top centre; ‘Zell’ (inverted) centre
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘15’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CCXC–15’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
At the upper register Turner has delicately rendered a view of the Marienburg at Zell, inscribing the words ‘wood’ and ‘road’ below it. Orientated inversely is a further sketch of the castle atop a craggy range. The final sketch depicts Zell, with the eighteenth-century Church of St Peter and St Paul at the banks of the Moselle and the ‘Bachturm’ tower in the middle distance (see Tate D28376; Turner Bequest CCXC 13 a). It appears that Turner began to draw a very rough valley landscape at the bottom of the page which continues onto the folio opposite (Tate D28378; Turner Bequest CCXC 14 a).

Alice Rylance-Watson
July 2013

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘The Marienburg; Zell; The Marienburg 1839 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, July 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, November 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-the-marienburg-zell-the-marienburg-r1150664, accessed 04 April 2026.