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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Freyenstein Castle, from Successive Viewpoints Moving Downstream; Sarmingstein 1833

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Freyenstein Castle, from Successive Viewpoints Moving Downstream; Sarmingstein’ 1833
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 64 Recto:
Freyenstein Castle, from Successive Viewpoints Moving Downstream; Sarmingstein 1833
D30256
Turner Bequest CCC 64
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 159 x 99 mm
Partial watermark floral motif
Remains of inscription in red ink by Ruskin ‘64’ bottom right
Inscribed in black ink over Ruskin by CF Bell ‘64’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCC–64’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The first three sketches show Freyenstein Castle, a ruined fortification near Sarmingstein, from successive viewpoints down the Danube. The sketch at rear, rendered inversely relative to the views of Freyenstein, shows Sarmingstein (see Tate D30254–D30255; Turner Bequest 63–63a).
Technical notes:
Water stains present, presumably owing to the Tate Gallery flood of 1928.

Alice Rylance-Watson
July 2017

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Freyenstein Castle, from Successive Viewpoints Moving Downstream; Sarmingstein 1833 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, July 2017, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, March 2023, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-freyenstein-castle-from-successive-viewpoints-moving-r1203389, accessed 17 July 2024.