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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Oberwesel and the Schönburg, Looking Upstream from inland behind the Ocksturm 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Oberwesel and the Schönburg, Looking Upstream from inland behind the Ocksturm’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 56 Recto:
Oberwesel and the Schönburg, Looking Upstream from inland behind the Ocksturm 1839
D28461
Turner Bequest CCXC 56
Pencil on flecked off-white wove paper, 100 x 163 mm
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘56’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CCXC–56’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This slight sketch depicts Oberwesel with the Castle Schönburg represented in silhouette atop the mount at right. The medieval crenellated Ochsenturm (‘Ox Tower’) is shown in the left foreground. This sketch and those on Tate D28459, D28460, D28462–D28465; Turner Bequest CCXC 55, 55a, 56a–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 from inland behind the Ocksturm 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-from-inland-r1150744, accessed 25 April 2024.