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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Sankt Goar and Burg Rheinfels, Looking Upstream from the Northern Approach to Sankt Goar 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Sankt Goar and Burg Rheinfels, Looking Upstream from the Northern Approach to Sankt Goar’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
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Sankt Goar and Burg Rheinfels, Looking Upstream from the Northern Approach to Sankt Goar 1839
D28510
Turner Bequest CCXC 79 d
Pencil on flecked off-white wove paper, 100 x 163 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This prospect, rendered in slight and agile line, depicts the town of Sankt Goar and its castle, the Burg Rheinfels. The spire of the evangelical church can be seen in the middle distance at centre.

Alice Rylance-Watson
July 2013

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Sankt Goar and Burg Rheinfels, Looking Upstream from the Northern Approach to Sankt Goar 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-sankt-goar-and-burg-rheinfels-looking-upstream-from-the-r1150793, accessed 25 April 2024.