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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8

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

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 21 Recto:
Alken and Burg Thurandt, Looking Downstream 1839
D28577
Turner Bequest CCXCI 21
Pencil on cream laid writing paper, 100 x 156 mm
Watermarked ‘[co]mp’
Inscribed in red ink by Ruskin ‘21’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCXCI–21’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This loose and swiftly rendered sketch shows Alken and the Burg Thurandt as Turner sailed downstream on the Moselle towards the village of Kattenes.
For other views of Alken and the Burg Thurandt in this sketchbook see Tate D28371–D28376; Turner Bequest 18–20a.
Verso:
Blank.

Alice Rylance-Watson
August 2013

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-r1150861, accessed 28 March 2024.