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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Ehrenbreitstein from the Rhine Quay at Koblenz 1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Ehrenbreitstein from the Rhine Quay at Koblenz’ 1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 119 Verso:
Ehrenbreitstein from the Rhine Quay at Koblenz 1824
D19785
Turner Bequest CCXVI 117 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 78 x 118 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Contrary to Finberg’s original catalogue title for this drawing, ‘Ruined castle on rock, probably Beilstein’, Cecilia Powell has discovered that Turner here records the mighty fortress of Ehrenbreitstein at Koblenz, Germany. More sketches of the citadel can be found on Tate D19818–D19821, D19826–D19830; Turner Bequest CCXVI 134–135a, 138–140.

Alice Rylance-Watson
May 2014

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Ehrenbreitstein from the Rhine Quay at Koblenz 1824 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2014, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, April 2015, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-ehrenbreitstein-from-the-rhine-quay-at-koblenz-r1174576, accessed 26 April 2024.