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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Alken and Burg Thurandt, Looking Downstream 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Alken and Burg Thurandt, Looking Downstream’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 18 Verso:
Alken and Burg Thurandt, Looking Downstream 1839
D28572
Turner Bequest CCXCI 18 a
Pencil on cream laid writing paper, 100 x 156 mm
Watermarked ‘[v d m[eulen]’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With agile handling, here Turner pictures the village of Alken, nestled at the foot of a mountain range. Buildings such as the Chapel of St Michael can be seen, built into the gradient leading toward the ‘ivy-mantled’ ruins of Burg Thurandt.1 One of the turrets of Wiltberg House can just be made out behind the church.
This sketch and that on Tate D28371; Turner Bequest CCXCI 18 formed the basis of a watercolour and gouache drawing of 1839 (Tate D29023; Turner Bequest CCXCII 72). For other views of Alken and the Burg Thurandt in this sketchbook see Tate D28373–D28377; Turner Bequest CCXCI 19–21.

Alice Rylance-Watson
August 2013

1
Michael Joseph Quin, Steam voyages on the Seine, the Moselle, & the Rhine, London 1843, p.60.

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Alken and Burg Thurandt, Looking Downstream 1839 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, August 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-alken-and-burg-thurandt-looking-downstream-r1150856, accessed 21 September 2024.