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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The Drachenfels; The Godesburg from the Rhine 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Drachenfels; The Godesburg from the Rhine’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 45 Verso:
The Drachenfels; The Godesburg from the Rhine 1839
D28625
Turner Bequest CCXCI 45 a
Pencil on cream laid writing paper, 100 x 156 mm
Watermarked French imperial eagle
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
These two separate drawings show the colossal Drachenfels mountain and castle, and the Godesburg donjon tower from the Rhine (see Tate D28618; Turner Bequest CCXCI 42).

Alice Rylance-Watson
August 2013

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘The Drachenfels; The Godesburg 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-the-godesburg-from-the-rhine-r1150909, accessed 26 April 2024.