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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Two Sketches of Burg Gutenfels, Kaub and the Pfalz, Looking Upstream, and One of Burg Gutenfels from beneath it 1833

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Two Sketches of Burg Gutenfels, Kaub and the Pfalz, Looking Upstream, and One of Burg Gutenfels from beneath it’ 1833
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 66 Recto:
Two Sketches of Burg Gutenfels, Kaub and the Pfalz, Looking Upstream, and One of Burg Gutenfels from beneath it 1833
D29722
Turner Bequest CCXCVI 65
Pencil on cream wove paper, 185 x 113 mm
Inscribed in red ink by Ruskin ‘65’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCXCVI 65’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The uppermost sketch shows Kaub dominated by the Burg Gutenfels. Pfalz toll castle can be seen at right, on a river island close to the banks of the Rhine. Kaub and its churches are depicted in the view below, with the Pfalz at right again. The sketch at rear is shows Burg Gutenfels. See Tate D29721; Turner Bequest CCXCVI 64a.

Alice Rylance-Watson
February 2017

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Two Sketches of Burg Gutenfels, Kaub and the Pfalz, Looking Upstream, and One of Burg Gutenfels from beneath it 1833 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, February 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-burg-gutenfels-kaub-and-the-pfalz-looking-r1203020, accessed 05 April 2026.