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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner

Joseph Mallord William Turner Two Views of Burg Sterrenberg and Burg Liebenstein ('The Brothers') from across the River Rhine; Burg Sterrenberg, Looking upstream from the West Bank soon after Boppard; a Boat 1817

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Two Views of Burg Sterrenberg and Burg Liebenstein ('The Brothers') from across the River Rhine; Burg Sterrenberg, Looking upstream from the West Bank soon after Boppard; a Boat’ 1817
Folio 60 Verso:
Two Views of Burg Sterrenberg and Burg Liebenstein (‘The Brothers’) from across the River Rhine; Burg Sterrenberg, Looking upstream from the West Bank soon after Boppard; a Boat 1817
D12814
Turner Bequest CLX 58a
Pencil on white wove paper, 94 x 150 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Fishing Boat St Goar’ bottom centre
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
For views of these rival castles made as Turner walked south up the Rhine on 23 August 1817 see the recto (D12813) and folios 59 verso (D12883; CLX 93a) and 61 of this sketchbook (D12815; Turner Bequest CLX 59). On this page, turned horizontally, alongside the boat he notes ‘St Goar’, his overnight stop on 23 August.

David Blayney Brown
June 2025

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Two Views of Burg Sterrenberg and Burg Liebenstein (‘The Brothers’) from across the River Rhine; Burg Sterrenberg, Looking upstream from the West Bank soon after Boppard; a Boat 1817’, catalogue entry, June 2025, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, June 2026, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/two-views-of-burg-sterrenberg-and-burg-liebenstein-the-brothers-from-across-the-river-r1212186, accessed 31 July 2026.