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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Alken and Burg Thurandt, from an Inland Viewpoint 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Alken and Burg Thurandt, from an Inland Viewpoint’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 19 Verso:
Alken and Burg Thurandt, from an Inland Viewpoint 1839
D28574
Turner Bequest CCXCI 19 a
Pencil on cream laid writing paper, 100 x 156 mm
Watermarked with French imperial eagle
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner negotiated the craggy and precipitous Alkenerbachtal on foot to sketch the village of Alken and Burg Thurandt from an inland viewpoint here. He had done the same to record the prospect on Tate D28573; Turner Bequest CCXCI 19.
For other views of Alken and the Burg Thurandt in this sketchbook see Tate D28371–D28372, D28575–D28577; Turner Bequest 18–18a, 20–1. See also the earlier Rivers Meuse and Moselle sketchbook of 1824 (Tate D19806–D19809; Turner Bequest CCXVI 128–129a).

Alice Rylance-Watson
August 2013

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Alken and Burg Thurandt, from an Inland Viewpoint 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-an-inland-viewpoint-r1150858, accessed 26 April 2024.