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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1830-35 Annual tourist > Northern Germany, the Elbe and Prague ... > Prague, Nuremberg, Frankfurt and Rhine ... > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Burg Sooneck 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Burg Sooneck’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 15 Verso:
Burg Sooneck 1835
D30660
Turner Bequest CCCIV 15 a
Pencil on cream laid paper, 118 x 190 mm
Watermark ‘jh[&z]’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is a view of Burg Sooneck, a medieval castle on the Rhine that Turner passed as he travelled towards Coblenz.
For more sketches of Burg Sooneck see Tate D12821, D12825, D25242, D25304, D29699, D29731, D30576, D30655, D33300; Turner Bequest CLX 62, 64, CCLXIII 120, 182, CCXCVI 53a, 69a, CCCIII 60a, CCCIV 13, CCCXXX 41; see also a watercolour of the castle produced in 1817 (British Museum, London).1

Alice Rylance-Watson
November 2015

1
Andrew Wilton, J.M.W. Turner: His Life and Work, Fribourg 1979, p.377 no.671.

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Burg Sooneck 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-sooneck-r1187041, accessed 23 April 2024.