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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Oberwesel and the Schönburg, Looking Upstream 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Oberwesel and the Schönburg, Looking Upstream’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 55 Verso:
Oberwesel and the Schönburg, Looking Upstream 1839
D28460
Turner Bequest CCXC 55 a
Pencil on flecked off-white wove paper, 100 x 163 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Rendered with fine, agile line Turner depicts the town of Oberwesel with the medieval crenellated Ochsenturm (‘Ox Tower’) at centre. The spire of the Pfarrkirche Liebfrauen and Saint Werner’s Chapel are also in view. In the distance, crowning a mount, is the Schönburg Castle.
This sketch and those on Tate D28459, D28461–D28465; Turner Bequest CCXC 55, 56–58 are the preliminary material for a highly finished watercolour and gouache drawing of 1840.1

Alice Rylance-Watson
July 2013

1
See Shanes, Joll, Warrell and others 2000, p.222 no.101 and Powell 1991, p.118 no.30, reproduced.

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Oberwesel and the Schönburg, 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-oberwesel-and-the-schonburg-looking-upstream-r1150743, accessed 19 April 2024.