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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The Drachenfels, from the Rhine 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Drachenfels, from the Rhine’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 41 Recto:
The Drachenfels, from the Rhine 1839
D28616
Turner Bequest CCXCI 41
Pencil on cream laid writing paper, 100 x 156 mm
Watermarked ‘[v d m]eulen’
Inscribed in red ink by Ruskin ‘41’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCXCI–41’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This sketch and that on the folio opposite (Tate D28615; Turner Bequest CCXCI 40a) show similar views of the Drachenfels (or ‘Dragon’s Rock’) in the Siebengebirge mountain range located between Königswinter and Bad Honnef. The ruined castle seen atop the mountain is the Burg Drachenfels, built between 1138 and 1167 by Archbishop Arnold I of Cologne; it was besieged by the Swedes during the Thirty Years’ War and never reconstructed.1

Alice Rylance-Watson
August 2013

1
‘Burg Drachenfels’, Siebengebirge, accessed 13 August 2013 http://www.siebengebirge.de/

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘The Drachenfels, from the Rhine 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-drachenfels-from-the-rhine-r1150900, accessed 25 April 2024.