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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The Confluence from Ehrenbreitstein 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Confluence from Ehrenbreitstein’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 48 Recto:
The Confluence from Ehrenbreitstein 1839
D28445
Turner Bequest CCXC 48
Pencil on flecked off-white wove paper, 100 x 163 mm
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘48’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CCXC–48’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This rough and summary sketch represents the confluence of the Moselle and Rhine Rivers from a high viewpoint at the Enhrenbreitstein fortress. One of the towers of St Castor’s basilica is in the middle distance, towards the right.1
For other drawings of Ehrenbreitstein and Koblenz in this sketchbook see Tate D28351– D28353, D28356, D28437–D28444, D28446–D28447, D28530–D28533; Turner Bequest CCXC 1–2, 3a, 44–47a, 48a–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

1
‘St Kastor’, Koblenz Touristik, http://www.koblenz-touristik.de/en/places-of-interest/churches/st-kastor.html, accessed 19 July 2013.

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘The Confluence 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-the-confluence-from-ehrenbreitstein-r1150728, accessed 18 April 2024.