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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner View down the Lahn to the Rhine with the Martinsburg at Oberlahnstein, Schloss Stolzenfels and Kapellen and St John's Church, Niederlahnstein 1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘View down the Lahn to the Rhine with the Martinsburg at Oberlahnstein, Schloss Stolzenfels and Kapellen and St John's Church, Niederlahnstein’ 1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 22 Recto:
View down the Lahn to the Rhine with the Martinsburg at Oberlahnstein, Schloss Stolzenfels and Kapellen and St John’s Church, Niederlahnstein 1824
D20160
Turner Bequest CCXVIII 22
Pencil and watercolour on white wove paper, 220 x 291 mm
Inscribed in red ink by Ruskin ‘22’ bottom right
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram towards bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCXVIII–22’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This sketch was taken at a point on the Lahn in front of the Burg Lahneck, looking towards the Castle Stolzenfels and the village of Kapellen (see Tate D20158; Turner Bequest CCXVIII 20). The first building on the right is the Martinsburg of Lahnstein, a formidable building constructed at the end of the thirteenth century by the Archbishops of Mainz to levy river taxes.1 The Martinsburg’s two towers are visible: the largest is the residential keep, a turreted hexagonal tower, and next to it, what appears to be a Rhenish helm. The foreground at left shows a fluid and agile rendering of a riverboat with its sails raised yet hanging loose.
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‘Martinsburg–I’, EBIDAT – Burgendatenbank Des Europäischen Burgeninstitutes Burgen an Rhine und Donau, accessed 13 December 2013, http://www.ms-visucom.de/cgi-bin/ebidat.pl?id=73
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Alice Rylance-Watson
December 2013

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘View down the Lahn to the Rhine with the Martinsburg at Oberlahnstein, Schloss Stolzenfels and Kapellen and St John’s Church, Niederlahnstein 1824 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, December 2013, 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-view-down-the-lahn-to-the-rhine-with-the-martinsburg-at-r1174899, accessed 26 April 2024.