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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The Sonnenburg, near Wiesbaden 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Sonnenburg, near Wiesbaden’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 65 Verso:
The Sonnenburg, near Wiesbaden 1839
D28480
Turner Bequest CCXC 65 a
Pencil on flecked off-white wove paper, 163 x 100 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This rough and swiftly rendered sketch shows the crumbling ruins of the keep and curtain wall of the Burg Sonnenburg, the ancient seat of the Counts of Nassau. Turner has clearly ascended the mount atop which the citadel lays to record it from a closer perspective. Sonnenburg is also depicted on Tate D28478, D28479, D28481, D28482; Turner Bequest CCXC 64a, 65, 66, 66a.

Alice Rylance-Watson
July 2013

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘The Sonnenburg, near Wiesbaden 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-the-sonnenburg-near-wiesbaden-r1150763, accessed 23 April 2024.