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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8

Joseph Mallord William Turner Sketch-map and Sketch of the Sonnenburg 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 66 Verso:
Sketch-map and Sketch of the Sonnenburg 1839
D28482
Turner Bequest CCXC 66 a
Pencil on flecked off-white wove paper, 100 x 163 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Gusbach’ and ‘Sonnburg’ top left
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
At the top left of the page Turner has produced a basic annotated map of the Sonnenburg complex as well as a diminutive sketch of the castle at top centre.

Alice Rylance-Watson
July 2013

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Sketch-map and Sketch of the Sonnenburg 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-sketch-map-and-sketch-of-the-sonnenburg-r1150765, accessed 29 March 2024.