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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Bornhofen, Burg Sterrenberg and Burg Liebenstein, Looking Upstream, with a Passenger Boat in the Foreground 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Bornhofen, Burg Sterrenberg and Burg Liebenstein, Looking Upstream, with a Passenger Boat in the Foreground’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 82 Verso:
Bornhofen, Burg Sterrenberg and Burg Liebenstein, Looking Upstream, with a Passenger Boat in the Foreground 1839
D28514
Turner Bequest CCXC 81 a
Pencil on flecked off-white wove paper, 100 x 163 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Umbrellas of all [?Colours]’ bottom centre
 
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. A boat is seen in the foreground, along with the circular forms of numerous umbrellas held up by the passengers aboard the vessel. Turner has inscribed ‘Umbrellas of all [?Colours]’ beneath it.
For other sketches of the Castles Liebenstein and Sterrenberg in this book see Tate D28511, D28513, D28515; Turner Bequest CCXC 80, 81, 82a.

Alice Rylance-Watson
July 2013

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Bornhofen, Burg Sterrenberg and Burg Liebenstein, Looking Upstream, with a Passenger Boat in the Foreground 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-r1150797, accessed 26 April 2024.