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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Three Sketches, Including One Probably of Sulzbach 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Three Sketches, Including One Probably of Sulzbach’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 58 Verso:
Three Sketches, Including One Probably of Sulzbach 1835
D30741
Turner Bequest CCCIV 58 a
Pencil on cream laid paper, 190 x 118 mm
Watermark with the Lion of the Seven Provinces
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘[...]’ top right; ‘[?Sh...bach]’ top right towards centre; ‘[...]’ centre towards bottom left inverted
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
These rough sketches, two of which have been rendered with the sketchbook turned upside down, appear to show aspects of a town and a fortification atop a high ridge. Though most of the inscriptions dashed off are illegible, one reading ‘[?Sh...bach]’ may stand for Sulzbach, a town on the River Main in Bavaria.

Alice Rylance-Watson
December 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Three Sketches, Including One Probably of Sulzbach 1835 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, December 2015, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, August 2017, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-three-sketches-including-one-probably-of-sulzbach-r1187116, accessed 04 April 2026.