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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Burg Reichenstein and the Clemenskapelle, Looking Downstream 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Burg Reichenstein and the Clemenskapelle, Looking Downstream’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 73 Recto:
Burg Reichenstein and the Clemenskapelle, Looking Downstream 1839
D28495
Turner Bequest CCXC 73
Pencil on flecked off-white wove paper, 100 x 163 mm
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘73’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CCXC–73’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This slight and swiftly rendered sketch depicts the Reichenstein Castle and St Clement’s Chapel on the banks of the Rhine near the town of Trechtingshausen (see also Tate D28494, D28496; Turner Bequest CCXC 72a, 73a).

Alice Rylance-Watson
July 2013

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Burg Reichenstein and the Clemenskapelle, Looking Downstream 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-burg-reichenstein-and-the-clemenskapelle-looking-downstream-r1150778, accessed 25 April 2024.