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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Bornhofen, Burg Sterrenberg and Burg Liebenstein, Looking Downstream 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Bornhofen, Burg Sterrenberg and Burg Liebenstein, Looking Downstream’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 82 Recto:
Bornhofen, Burg Sterrenberg and Burg Liebenstein, Looking Downstream 1839
D28513
Turner Bequest CCXC 81
Pencil on flecked off-white wove paper, 100 x 163 mm
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘81’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CCXC–81’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Here Turner shows the village of Bornhofen, presided over by the ruins of the thirteenth-century Castles Liebenstein and Sterrenberg. Together the two castles are known as the ‘Hostile Brothers’ owing to a local legend which tells of two feuding descendents of an old king who constructed the fortifications during a dispute over their inheritance.1 For other sketches of the castles in this book see Tate D28511, D28514, D28515; Turner Bequest CCXC 80, 81a, 82a.

Alice Rylance-Watson
July 2013

1
‘The Castle: History and Saga’, Hotel Castle Liebenstein, http://www.castle-liebenstein.com/germany/index.html, accessed 31 July 3013.

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Bornhofen, Burg Sterrenberg and Burg Liebenstein, 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-bornhofen-burg-sterrenberg-and-burg-liebenstein-looking-r1150796, accessed 24 April 2024.