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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Five Sketches of Alken and Burg Thurandt 1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Five Sketches of Alken and Burg Thurandt’ 1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 131 Recto:
Five Sketches of Alken and Burg Thurandt 1824
D19808
Turner Bequest CCXVI 129
Pencil on white wove paper, 118 x 78 mm
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘129’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CCXVI–129’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
In these five swiftly executed views Turner studies the Burg Thurandt overlooking the village of Alken on the Moselle from various angles. For further drawings of the castle see Tate D19806–D19807–D19809, D20267, D28305, D28307, D28571–D28577, D28949, D29023; Turner Bequest CCXVI 128–128a, 129a, CCXXII H, CCLXXXIX 8, 9, CCXCI 18–21, CCXCII 2, 72.

Alice Rylance-Watson
June 2014

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Five Sketches of Alken and Burg Thurandt 1824 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, June 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-five-sketches-of-alken-and-burg-thurandt-r1174599, accessed 26 April 2024.