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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Burg Reichenstein, Looking Upstream 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Burg Reichenstein, Looking Upstream’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 73 Verso:
Burg Reichenstein, Looking Upstream 1839
D28496
Turner Bequest CCXC 73 a
Pencil on flecked off-white wove paper, 100 x 163 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is a very rough jotting of the medieval castle of Reichenstein situated in the Rhine gorge, taken from upstream. See also Tate D28494–D28495; Turner Bequest CCXC 72a–73.

Alice Rylance-Watson
July 2013

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Burg Reichenstein, Looking Upstream 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-looking-upstream-r1150779, accessed 22 September 2024.