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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Burg Katz, Sankt Goarshausen and Sankt Goar, Looking Upstream; The Lorelei, Looking Upstream; Sankt Goar and Burg Rheinfels, Looking Upstream 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Burg Katz, Sankt Goarshausen and Sankt Goar, Looking Upstream; The Lorelei, Looking Upstream; Sankt Goar and Burg Rheinfels, Looking Upstream’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 54 Recto:
Burg Katz, Sankt Goarshausen and Sankt Goar, Looking Upstream; The Lorelei, Looking Upstream; Sankt Goar and Burg Rheinfels, Looking Upstream 1839
D28457
Turner Bequest CCXC 54
Pencil on flecked off-white wove paper, 100 x 163 mm
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘54’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CCXC–54’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
From the upper to lower register (running parallel to the gutter of the book), these three panoramic sketches show Burg Katz and the towns of Sankt Goarshausen and Sankt Goar on the Rhine; the Lorelei (a slate cliff on the eastern bank of the river which soars some 132 metres above the waterline); and Sankt Goar and the Castle Rhinefels which presides over it.1

Alice Rylance-Watson
July 2013

1
‘Loreley (Lorelei)’, Loreley Info, http://www.loreley-info.com/index.php, accessed 23 July 2013.

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Burg Katz, Sankt Goarshausen and Sankt Goar, Looking Upstream; The Lorelei, Looking Upstream; Sankt Goar and Burg Rheinfels, Looking Upstream 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-burg-katz-sankt-goarshausen-and-sankt-goar-looking-upstream-r1150740, accessed 25 April 2024.