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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner

Joseph Mallord William Turner Two Views ?down and up the River Rhine to Burg Fürstenberg; Hills and Buildings by the River 1817

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Two Views ?down and up the River Rhine to Burg Fürstenberg; Hills and Buildings by the River’ 1817
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Two Views ?down and up the River Rhine to Burg Fürstenberg; Hills and Buildings by the River 1817
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Turner Bequest CLX 72a
Pencil on white wove paper, 150 x 94 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Starklech Burg | above Bac’ top right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
These sketches are part of a series in this sketchbook drawn in late August 1817 as Turner returned down the Rhine by boat from Mainz. The top sketch does not represent Burg Stahleck or Bacharach despite Turner’s adjacent inscription. Cecilia Powell’s suggestion1 that this and the middle sketch are views down and up the river to Burg Fürstenberg is retained here.

David Blayney Brown
June 2025

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Powell 1991, p.198.

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Two Views ?down and up the River Rhine to Burg Fürstenberg; Hills and Buildings by the River 1817’, catalogue entry, June 2025, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, June 2026, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/two-views-down-and-up-the-river-rhine-to-burg-furstenberg-hills-and-buildings-by-the-river-r1212214, accessed 31 July 2026.