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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner ?Distant View of the Marienburg; Landscape Sketches 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?Distant View of the Marienburg; Landscape Sketches’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
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?Distant View of the Marienburg; Landscape Sketches 1839
D28380
Turner Bequest CCXC 15 a
Pencil on flecked off-white wove paper, 163 x 100 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘½ H 4 by WNW’ (inverted) at centre towards bottom left
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Rendered with rough and gestural handling in blunt pencil, these sketches depict the Marienburg at the upper register and three other landscapes orientated inversely. Beneath the sketch of the castle there is an inscription reading ‘½ H 4 by WNW’: most likely a co-ordinate.

Alice Rylance-Watson
July 2013

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘?Distant View of the Marienburg; Landscape Sketches 1839 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, July 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, November 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-distant-view-of-the-marienburg-landscape-sketches-r1150665, accessed 28 April 2025.