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

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

Joseph Mallord William Turner Cross-Sections of Fortification; Two Views of 'The Brothers'; a Village Street (?Oberwesel) 1817

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Cross-Sections of Fortification; Two Views of 'The Brothers'; a Village Street (?Oberwesel)’ 1817
Folio 92 Recto:
Cross–Sections of Fortification; Two Views of ‘The Brothers’; a Village Street (?Oberwesel) 1817
D12876
Turner Bequest CLX 90
Pencil on white wove paper, 150 x 94 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘90’ bottom left, and ‘258’ top left, both upside down
Stamped in black ‘CLX – 90’ top left, upside down
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
These sketches, with the page inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, extend across folio 91 verso opposite (D12875; Turner Bequest CLX 89a); see catalogue entry.

David Blayney Brown
July 2025

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Cross–Sections of Fortification; Two Views of ‘The Brothers’; a Village Street (?Oberwesel) 1817’, catalogue entry, July 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/cross-sections-of-fortification-two-views-of-the-brothers-a-village-street-oberwesel-r1212248, accessed 01 August 2026.