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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Burg Lahneck, Schloss Stolzenfels and Kapellen, Looking Upstream from the West Bank of the Rhine 1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Burg Lahneck, Schloss Stolzenfels and Kapellen, Looking Upstream from the West Bank of the Rhine’ 1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
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Burg Lahneck, Schloss Stolzenfels and Kapellen, Looking Upstream from the West Bank of the Rhine 1824
D19829
Turner Bequest CCXVI 139 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 118 x 78 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This loose and fluidly rendered sketch shows the Castles Lahneck and Stolzenfels at Lahnstein, a town six kilometres south of Koblenz situated on the confluence of the Lahn and Rhine Rivers. For further drawings of these castles in this sketchbook see Tate D19831, D19833–D19834; Turner Bequest CCXVI 140a, 141a–142.

Alice Rylance-Watson
June 2014

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Burg Lahneck, Schloss Stolzenfels and Kapellen, Looking Upstream from the West Bank of the Rhine 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-burg-lahneck-schloss-stolzenfels-and-kapellen-looking-r1174620, accessed 23 September 2024.