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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Oberwesel and the Schönburg, Looking Downstream; Details of the Schönburg and the Liebfrauenkirche 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Oberwesel and the Schönburg, Looking Downstream; Details of the Schönburg and the Liebfrauenkirche’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
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Oberwesel and the Schönburg, Looking Downstream; Details of the Schönburg and the Liebfrauenkirche 1839
D28500
Turner Bequest CCXC 75 a
Pencil on flecked off-white wove paper, 100 x 163 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Here Turner has recorded a prospect of Oberwesel, a town on the Rhine’s left bank situated between Sankt Goar and Bacharach. The view encompasses the Pfarrkirche Liebfrauen, the tower of Saint Martin’s Parish Church, the Ochsenturm, and the numerous defensive towers connected to Oberwesel’s city walls. The Schönburg Castle, for centuries home to the dukes of that name, is atop the mount at left. Above this prospect are two sketches of the Schönburg and the Liebfrauenkirche.
For other sketches of Oberwesel in this sketchbook see Tate D28470, D28483–D28485, D28487–D28491, D28497, D28501; CCXC 60a, 67–68, 69–71, 74, 76. The town and Castle Schönburg also feature in the 1817 Itinerary Rhine Tour and Waterloo and Rhine sketchbooks (Tate D12621–D12623, D12832, D12834–D12837; Turner Bequest CLIX 59–60, CLX 67am 68a–70).

Alice Rylance-Watson
July 2013

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Oberwesel and the Schönburg, Looking Downstream; Details of the Schönburg and the Liebfrauenkirche 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-oberwesel-and-the-schonburg-looking-downstream-details-of-r1150783, accessed 25 April 2024.