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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Coblenz from Ehrenbreitstein 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Coblenz from Ehrenbreitstein’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 45 Recto:
Coblenz from Ehrenbreitstein 1839
D28439
Turner Bequest CCXC 45
Pencil on flecked off-white wove paper, 100 x 163 mm
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘45’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CCXC–45’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
In this swiftly rendered sketch Turner records the town of Koblenz from the fortress of Ehrenbreitstein, the angular projection of its curtain wall visible in the foreground.
For other drawings of Ehrenbreitstein and Koblenz in this sketchbook see Tate D28351– D28353, D28356, D28437, D28438, D28440–D28447, D28530–D28533; Turner Bequest CCXC 1–2, 3a, 44, 44a, 45a–49, 88–89a. See also Enhrenbreitstein in depicted in two other sketchbooks belonging to the 1839 tour: the First Mossel and Oxford (Tate D28297, D28301, D28306, D28316, D28317; Turner Bequest CCLXXXIX 4, 6, 7, 8a, 13a, 14) and the Cochem to Coblenz – Home (Tate D28603, D28605–D28607; Turner Bequest CCXCI 34a, 35a–36a).

Alice Rylance-Watson
July 2013

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Coblenz from Ehrenbreitstein 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-coblenz-from-ehrenbreitstein-r1150722, accessed 26 April 2024.