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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The Rotenberg Württemberg Mausoleum; Standing Figure 1833

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Rotenberg Württemberg Mausoleum; Standing Figure’ 1833
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 48 Recto:
The Rotenberg Württemberg Mausoleum; Standing Figure 1833
D29908
Turner Bequest CCXCVIII 48
Pencil on off-white lined paper, 165 x 110 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Mont Rosa | Rosenberg’ (inverted) centre
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘48’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CCXCVIII 48’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
A standing figure is sketched above a view of the Württemberg Mausoleum, a sepulchral chapel situated atop Württemberg (formerly Rotenberg) Hill in Stuttgart. The memorial was built to house the remains of Wilhelm I of Württemberg’s second wife Catherine Pavlovna of Russia (1788–1819). It was designed by the Italian architect Giovanni Salucci who also responsible for Schloss Weil, Wilhelm I’s country retreat depicted on the folio opposite (Tate D29909; Turner Bequest CCXCVIII 48a). ‘Mont Rosa | Rosenberg’ is inscribed.

Alice Rylance-Watson
July 2017

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘The Rotenberg Württemberg Mausoleum; Standing Figure 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-the-rotenberg-wurttemberg-mausoleum-standing-figure-r1203168, accessed 12 August 2025.