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 Fürstenberg 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Burg Fürstenberg’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 16 Recto:
Burg Fürstenberg 1835
D30661
Turner Bequest CCCIV 16
Pencil on cream laid paper, 118 x 190 mm
Watermark with the Lion of the Seven Provinces | ‘jh[&z]’
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Furstenberg’ rear centre
Inscribed in red ink by Ruskin ‘16’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCCIV–16’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is a view of the Rhine in Germany, with Burg Fürstenberg atop a ridge at left. The castle is pictured elsewhere in the Turner Bequest on Tate D12825, D12842, D12940, D29727–D29731, D30572–D30573, D30662; Turner Bequest CLX 64, 72a, CLXI 31a, CCXCVI 67a–69, CCCIII 58–59, CCCIV 16a; see also a watercolour of Fürstenberg produced in 1817 now housed at the Manchester City Galleries, Manchester.1
Turner has inscribed ‘Furstenberg’ at rear.

Alice Rylance-Watson
November 2015

1
Andrew Wilton, J.M.W. Turner: His Life and Work, Fribourg 1979, p.374 no.641.

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Burg Fürstenberg 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-furstenberg-r1187042, accessed 25 April 2024.