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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Aschaffenburg: Two Views of the Schloss Johannisburg 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Aschaffenburg: Two Views of the Schloss Johannisburg’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 44 Verso:
Aschaffenburg: Two Views of the Schloss Johannisburg 1835
D30714
Turner Bequest CCCIV 44 a
Pencil on cream laid paper, 118 x 190 mm
Watermark ‘jh[&z]’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Here Turner depicts part of the Schloss Johannisburg, a chateau overlooking the River Main at Aschaffenburg, Bavaria. The Schloss was built in the early sixteen hundreds for the Prince Bishop of Mainz. One of its four baroque corner towers is shown here, along with some of the façade. At top left Turner has also pictured the palace’s riverside aspect; the bottom of the building can be seen near the water’s edge with meadows beyond.

Alice Rylance-Watson
December 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Aschaffenburg: Two Views of the Schloss Johannisburg 1835 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, December 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-aschaffenburg-two-views-of-the-schloss-johannisburg-r1187090, accessed 22 September 2024.