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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Oberwesel, Looking Downstream from the Approach to the Schönburg 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Oberwesel, Looking Downstream from the Approach to the Schönburg’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 60 Recto:
Oberwesel, Looking Downstream from the Approach to the Schönburg 1839
D28469
Turner Bequest CCXC 60
Pencil on flecked off-white wove paper, 100 x 163 mm
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘60’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CCXC–60’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This picturesque view of Oberwesel is framed by the spire of the Liebfrauenkirche at bottom right and shows a cluster of medieval towers and buildings including: the square tower of St Martin’s Parish Church, the numerous turrets interspersed along the town wall, and the crenellated defensive towers, among them the Ochsenturm, the Katzturm, and the Steingassenturm.
For other drawings of Oberwesel in this sketchbook see Tate D28459–D28466, D28468, Turner Bequest CCXC 55–58a, 59a.

Alice Rylance-Watson
July 2013

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Oberwesel, Looking Downstream from the Approach to the Schönburg 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-looking-downstream-from-the-approach-to-the-r1150752, accessed 20 September 2024.