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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Bornhofen and Burg Sterrenberg 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Bornhofen and Burg Sterrenberg’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 81 Recto:
Bornhofen and Burg Sterrenberg 1839
D28511
Turner Bequest CCXC 80
Pencil on flecked off-white wove paper, 100 x 163 mm
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘80’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CCXC–80’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Rendered in agile line, this sketch shows the village of Bornhofen in the Rhine Gorge, near the town of Boppard. Above it is the Burg Sterrenberg, a castle built in 1100 to protect the territories of its lords, the von Bolanden family and to safeguard the toll station and customs office in Bornhofen.1 Following the decline of the Bolandens at the end of the fourteenth century the castle passed on to the archbishopric of Trier. By 1456, however, it had fallen into ruin.2
Sterrenberg is also depicted on Tate D28513–D28515; Turner Bequest CCXC 81–82a.

Alice Rylance-Watson
July 2013

1
‘The Castle’, Burg Sterrenberg, http://www.burg-sterrenberg.de/english/die-burg.html, accessed 31 July 2013.
2
Ibid.

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Bornhofen and Burg Sterrenberg 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-bornhofen-and-burg-sterrenberg-r1150794, accessed 26 April 2024.