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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Lehmen, Looking Downstream 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Lehmen, Looking Downstream’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 24 Recto:
Lehmen, Looking Downstream 1839
D28582
Turner Bequest CCXCI 24
Pencil on cream laid writing paper, 100 x 156 mm
Watermarked ‘& c[omp]’
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Leben’ bottom left
Inscribed in red ink by Ruskin ‘24’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCXCI–24’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Here Turner has sketched Lehmen, a town which neighbours Oberfell on the Mosel. The tall gabled tower on the left is the twelfth-century Romanesque Glockenturm and beyond it, the spire of St Stefan’s Parish Church. Turner has inscribed his approximation of the town’s name, ‘Leben’, at bottom left.

Alice Rylance-Watson
August 2013

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Lehmen, 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-lehmen-looking-downstream-r1150866, accessed 24 April 2024.