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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Burg Lahneck and the Mouth of the Lahn, Looking up the Rhine to Oberlahnstein and Schloss Stolzenfels 1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Burg Lahneck and the Mouth of the Lahn, Looking up the Rhine to Oberlahnstein and Schloss Stolzenfels’ 1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 21 Recto:
Burg Lahneck and the Mouth of the Lahn, Looking up the Rhine to Oberlahnstein and Schloss Stolzenfels 1824
D20159
Turner Bequest CCXVIII 21
Pencil and watercolour on white wove paper, 220 x 291 mm
Inscribed in red ink by Ruskin ‘21’ bottom right
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram towards bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCXVIII–21’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This rough and swiftly executed sketch shows the Burg Lahneck at left, overlooking the town of Lahnstein and the confluence of the Lahn and Rhine Rivers. In the distance towards right is the Schloss Stolzenfels, rendered in faint quivering line (see Tate D20158; Turner Bequest CCXVIII 20). An array of cursory marks suggest the lay of the riverbank in the foreground: trees, shrubbery, a pathway, perhaps also boats and figures.
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Alice Rylance-Watson
December 2013

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Burg Lahneck and the Mouth of the Lahn, Looking up the Rhine to Oberlahnstein and Schloss Stolzenfels 1824 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, December 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, April 2015, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-burg-lahneck-and-the-mouth-of-the-lahn-looking-up-the-rhine-r1174898, accessed 21 November 2024.