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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Gondorf, Looking Downstream 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Gondorf, Looking Downstream’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 25 Recto:
Gondorf, Looking Downstream 1839
D28584
Turner Bequest CCXCI 25
Pencil on cream laid writing paper, 100 x 156 mm
Watermarked with French imperial eagle
Inscribed in red ink by Ruskin ‘25’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCXCI–25’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This sketch of the town of Gondorf and the Leyen Burg is one of a series of eight pencil studies Turner made of these subjects from vantage points the Moselle and inland (Tate D28583, D28585–D28588; Turner Bequest CCXCI 24a, 25a–7). Part of the castle is shown here, giving onto the river’s bank.

Alice Rylance-Watson
August 2013

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Gondorf, 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-gondorf-looking-downstream-r1150868, accessed 23 April 2024.