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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8

Joseph Mallord William Turner The Leyen Burg, Looking Upstream 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 27 Recto:
The Leyen Burg, Looking Upstream 1839
D28588
Turner Bequest CCXCI 27
Pencil on cream laid writing paper, 100 x 156 mm
Watermarked ‘v d m[eulen]’
Inscribed in red ink by Ruskin ‘27’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCXCI–27’ 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–D28587; Turner Bequest CCXCI 24a–26a). Part of the castle is shown here, giving onto the river’s bank, as Turner sailed upstream.

Alice Rylance-Watson
August 2013

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘The Leyen Burg, Looking Upstream 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-the-leyen-burg-looking-upstream-r1150872, accessed 28 March 2024.