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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The Mäuseturm and Burg Ehrenfels; The Mäuseturm 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Mäuseturm and Burg Ehrenfels; The Mäuseturm’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
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The Mäuseturm and Burg Ehrenfels; The Mäuseturm 1835
D30648
Turner Bequest CCCIV 9 a
Pencil on cream laid paper, 118 x 190 mm
Watermark ‘[jan honig & z]onen’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This sketch was taken on the Rhine as Turner passed the riverside town of Bingen. The view shows two nearby fortifications, the Mäuseturm and Burg Ehrenfels, erected by the Archbishopric of Mainz to protect territories and collect taxes. A separate sketch of the Mäuseturm is at rear.
See also Tate D12829, D12835, D12840–D12841, D12944–D12945, D12948–D12949, D28492–D28493, D29598, D29737, D29739–D29742, D29744–D29745, D30583–D30584, D30586, D30589, D30644–D30645, D30651; Turner Bequest CLX 66, 69, 71a–72, CLXI 33a–34, 35a–36, CCXC 71a–72, CCXCVI 2a, 72a, 73a–75, 76–76a, CCCIII 63a–64a, 65a, 67, CCCIV 7a–8, 11. There are also two watercolours of Bingen produced in 1817 (Private Collection and British Museum).1

Alice Rylance-Watson
November 2015

1
Andrew Wilton, J.M.W. Turner: His Life and Work, Fribourg 1979, pp.378–9 nos 679 and 682.

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘The Mäuseturm and Burg Ehrenfels; The Mäuseturm 1835 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, November 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-the-mauseturm-and-burg-ehrenfels-the-mauseturm-r1187029, accessed 22 November 2024.