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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Two Sketches of Aggstein, Looking Downstream, Each with a Separate Detail 1833

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Two Sketches of Aggstein, Looking Downstream, Each with a Separate Detail’ 1833
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 74 Verso:
Two Sketches of Aggstein, Looking Downstream, Each with a Separate Detail 1833
D30275
Turner Bequest CCC 74a
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 159 x 99 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
These sketches, orientated inversely to one another, show the ruins of Aggstein Castle on the Danube. A detail of the castle is rendered next to both sketches. See also Tate D30274, D30276; Turner Bequest CCC 74, 75.
Technical notes:
The top left corner of the folio has been torn off.

Alice Rylance-Watson
July 2017

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Two Sketches of Aggstein, Looking Downstream, Each with a Separate Detail 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-two-sketches-of-aggstein-looking-downstream-each-with-a-r1203407, accessed 12 June 2026.