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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner ?Schloss Weesenstein 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?Schloss Weesenstein’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 17 Recto:
?Schloss Weesenstein 1835
D30916
Turner Bequest CCCVI 17
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 170 x 104 mm
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘17’ top right and ‘3’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCCVI 17’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This slight and roughly rendered sketch is most likely of the Schloss Weesenstein in the Mueglitz Valley. See also Tate D30901–D30915; Turner Bequest CCCVI 9a–16a.

Alice Rylance-Watson
August 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘?Schloss Weesenstein 1835 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, August 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-schloss-weesenstein-r1186788, accessed 24 November 2024.