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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Bernkastel and the Landshut, Looking Upstream; A Boat; Detail of the Landshut; Bernkastel from Graach 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Bernkastel and the Landshut, Looking Upstream; A Boat; Detail of the Landshut; Bernkastel from Graach’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 29 Verso:
Bernkastel and the Landshut, Looking Upstream; A Boat; Detail of the Landshut; Bernkastel from Graach 1839
D28408
Turner Bequest CCXC 29 a
Pencil on flecked off-white wove paper, 163 x 100 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘o’ top right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Here Turner has four slight sketches of the village of Bernkastel and the ruins of Landshut Castle which presides over it. With the book orientated horizontally, Turner has taken a summary view of Bernkastel with a detail of the Landshut below it. With the sketchbook orientated inversely to the foliation, there are two views of Bernkastel from the neighbouring town of Graach.

Alice Rylance-Watson
July 2013

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Bernkastel and the Landshut, Looking Upstream; A Boat; Detail of the Landshut; Bernkastel from Graach 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-bernkastel-and-the-landshut-looking-upstream-a-boat-detail-r1150693, accessed 26 April 2024.