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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8

Joseph Mallord William Turner Four Views of Burg Lahneck and Oberlahnstein 1824

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 143 Verso:
Four Views of Burg Lahneck and Oberlahnstein 1824
D19833
Turner Bequest CCXVI 141 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 118 x 78 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
In these four sketches Turner studies the medieval castle of Lahneck and the town of Oberlahnstein over which it presides from a variety of vantage points. For further sketches of the Burg Lahneck in this book and others from the 1824 tour see: Tate D19829, D19831, D19834, D20155–D20157, D20159; Turner Bequest CCXVI 139a, 140a, 142, CCXVIII 17–19, 21. For earlier drawings of the monument see Tate D12695, D12808, D12811–D12812, D12905–D12907, D12910–D12911, D12973, D12979–D12980; Turner Bequest CLIX 81a, CLX 55a, 57–57a, CLXI 13–14, 17–17a, 48a, 51a–52. For later drawings see D28448, D28450–D28453, D28524, D28526, D28528, D29660, D29667–D29668; Turner Bequest CCXC 49a, 50–52, 85, 86, 87, CCXCVI 32a, 36a–37.

Alice Rylance-Watson
June 2014

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Four Views of Burg Lahneck and Oberlahnstein 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-four-views-of-burg-lahneck-and-oberlahnstein-r1174624, accessed 28 March 2024.