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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The Schönburg and Liebfrauenkirche at Oberwesel 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Schönburg and Liebfrauenkirche at Oberwesel’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 76 Verso:
The Schönburg and Liebfrauenkirche at Oberwesel 1839
D28502
Turner Bequest CCXC 76 a
Pencil on flecked off-white wove paper, 100 x 163 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
These slight and swiftly rendered jottings show the Pfarrkirche Liebfrauen and Schönburg Castle at Oberwesel.
For other sketches of Oberwesel in this sketchbook see Tate D28470, D28483–D28485, D28487–D28491, D28497, D28500, D28501; CCXC 60a, 67–68, 69–71, 74, 75a, 76. The town and Castle Schönburg also feature in the 1817 Itinerary Rhine Tour and Waterloo and Rhine sketchbooks (Tate D12621–D12623, D12832, D12834–D12837; Turner Bequest CLIX 59–60, CLX 67am 68a–70).

Alice Rylance-Watson
July 2013

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘The Schönburg and Liebfrauenkirche at Oberwesel 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-schonburg-and-liebfrauenkirche-at-oberwesel-r1150785, accessed 05 April 2026.