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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Burg Reichenstein 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Burg Reichenstein’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 12 Recto:
Burg Reichenstein 1835
D30653
Turner Bequest CCCIV 12
Pencil on cream laid paper, 118 x 190 mm
Watermark ‘zo[nen]’
Stamped in black ‘CCCIV–12’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Here Turner pictures the Burg Reichenstein overlooking the Rhine in Germany. Like the nearby Burg Rheinstein, a castle situated less than a mile upstream, Burg Reichenstein was the property of the Electors of Mainz (see Tate D30654; Turner Bequest CCCIV 12a).
Other sketches of this castle can be found at Tate D12946–D12947, D28494–D28496, D29729, D29732–D29733, D29767, D30578–D30579; Turner Bequest CLXI 34a–35, CCXC 72a–73a, CCXCVI 68a, 70–70a, 89a, CCCIII 61a–62.

Alice Rylance-Watson
November 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Burg Reichenstein 1835 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, November 2015, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, August 2017, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-burg-reichenstein-r1187034, accessed 24 April 2024.