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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Alken and Burg Thurandt, from the Hillside beyond the Michaelskapelle, Looking Down on the Wiltberg House 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Alken and Burg Thurandt, from the Hillside beyond the Michaelskapelle, Looking Down on the Wiltberg House’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 19 Recto:
Alken and Burg Thurandt, from the Hillside beyond the Michaelskapelle, Looking Down on the Wiltberg House 1839
D28573
Turner Bequest CCXCI 19
Pencil on cream laid writing paper, 100 x 156 mm
Watermarked with French imperial eagle
Inscribed in red ink by Ruskin ‘19’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCXCI–19’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner ‘toiled up the steep hillside north of the town across the Alkenerbachtal’ in order to take this inland view of the hills and rooftops of Alken.1 The Michaelskapelle and Wiltberg House are also shown here (see Tate D28574; Turner Bequest CCXCI 19a).

Alice Rylance-Watson
August 2013

1
Powell 1991, p.147 no.76.

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Alken and Burg Thurandt, from the Hillside beyond the Michaelskapelle, Looking Down on the Wiltberg House 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-from-the-hillside-beyond-the-r1150857, accessed 20 September 2024.