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 66 Recto:
The Sonnenburg, near Wiesbaden 1839
D28481
Turner Bequest CCXC 66
Pencil on flecked off-white wove paper, 100 x 163 mm
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘66’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CCXC–66’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This relatively detailed sketch depicts the ruined architecture of the Burg Sonnenburg, the seat of the House of Nassau. Sonnenburg is also depicted on Tate D28478–D28480, D28482; Turner Bequest CCXC 64a–65a, 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-r1150764, accessed 26 April 2024.