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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Niederlahnstein, Burg Lahneck and Oberlahnstein, Looking Downstream 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Niederlahnstein, Burg Lahneck and Oberlahnstein, Looking Downstream’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 51 Verso:
Niederlahnstein, Burg Lahneck and Oberlahnstein, Looking Downstream 1839
D28452
Turner Bequest CCXC 51 a
Pencil on flecked off-white wove paper, 100 x 163 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This roughly rendered sketch shows Lahneck Castle atop a mount in the distance with the towns of Upper and Lower Lahnstein in the foreground. Turner took this view looking downstream on the Rhine.
For depictions of Burg Lahneck, Niederlahnstein and Oberlahnstein elsewhere in this sketchbook see Tate D28448, D28450, D28451, D28453, D28524–D28528; Turner Bequest CCXC 49a, 50a, 51, 52, 85–87. For earlier views see the Itinerary Rhine Tour sketchbook of 1817 (Tate D12659; Turner Bequest CCLIX 81a); the Waterloo and Rhine and Rhine sketchbooks of the same date (Tate D12808, D12811, D12812, D12852, D12906, D12907, D12911, D12980; Turner Bequest CLX 55a, 57, 57a, 77, CLXI 13a, 14, 17, 52). See also the 1824 sketchbooks Rivers Meuse and Moselle and Trèves and Rhine (Tate D19829, D19831, D19833, D19834, D20157, D20159; Turner Bequest CCXVI 139a, 140a, 141a, 142, CCXVIII 19, 21).

Alice Rylance-Watson
July 2013

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Niederlahnstein, Burg Lahneck and Oberlahnstein, Looking Downstream 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-niederlahnstein-burg-lahneck-and-oberlahnstein-looking-r1150735, accessed 27 April 2024.