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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Ehrenbreitstein 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Ehrenbreitstein’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 18 Recto:
Ehrenbreitstein 1835
D30665
Turner Bequest CCCIV 18
Pencil on cream laid paper, 118 x 190 mm
Watermark ‘[jan] honig’
Inscribed in red ink by Ruskin ‘18’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCCIV–18’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is a study of Ehrenbreitstein, a fortress built atop a rocky promontory overlooking the confluence of the Rhine and Moselle rivers at Coblenz, Germany (see Tate D30664; Turner Bequest CCCIV 17a).

Alice Rylance-Watson
November 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Ehrenbreitstein 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-ehrenbreitstein-r1187046, accessed 26 April 2024.