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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The Schönburg 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Schönburg’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 58 Verso:
The Schönburg 1839
D28466
Turner Bequest CCXC 58 a
Pencil on flecked off-white wove paper, 100 x 163 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘[?Sunneburg]’ top right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This rough and slight sketch shows the Schönburg from a closer perspective to Tate D28459–D28465; Turner Bequest CCXC 55–8, Turner having walked to the base of the mount atop which the castle stands to record it in more detail.

Alice Rylance-Watson
July 2013

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘The Schönburg 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-r1150749, accessed 02 August 2025.