Graphite on paper
Rhine Sketchbook
Germany
Tate Collection
Works with images
Joseph Mallord William Turner
Turner Bequest
Rhine Sketchbook
Collection
Turner owned by Tate
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Burg Rheinfels Looking Downstream to Wellmich Church and Burg Maus in Distance Riverside at St Goar
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
architecture
boat - non-specific
castle
cities, towns, villages (non-UK)
countries and continents
Germany
hill
house
landscape
military
natural features (non-UK)
places
residential
river
River Rhine
rocky
society
St Goar, Burg Rheinfels
townscape
townscapes / man-made features
transport: water
water: inland
<p>Turner used the 'Rhine' sketchbook between 20 and 30 August 1817 for bigger and better pencil sketches than those he was drawing on the same days in nos.1 and 2. The most outstanding of these were drawn at towns where he stayed overnight - Cologne, Coblenz and St Goar. Here he chose his sketching places with great care and produced a series of drawings as fine as any in his career. The sketch on ff.21v-22r was drawn from the waterside at St Goar looking downstream to Burg Rheinfels, the largest castle fortress on the Middle Rhine apart from Ehrenbreitstein (see no.24), and, in the distance, the graceful and much smaller Burg Maus.</p><p><em>Gallery label, August 2004</em></p>
paper unique graphite
Burg Rheinfels, Looking Downstream to Wellmich Church and Burg Maus in the Distance, from the Riverside at St Goar
support: 202 × 265 mm
Accepted by the nation as part of the <a href="/search?gid=999999781" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Turner Bequest</a> 1856
<p>Turner used the 'Rhine' sketchbook between 20 and 30 August 1817 for bigger and better <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/g/graphite" title="Glossary definition for 'Graphite'"><span>pencil</span></a> sketches than those he was <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/d/drawing" title="Glossary definition for 'Drawing'"><span>drawing</span></a> on the same days in nos.1 and 2. The most outstanding of these were drawn at towns where he stayed overnight - Cologne, Coblenz and St Goar. Here he chose his sketching places with great care and produced a series of drawings as fine as any in his career. The sketch on ff.21v-22r was drawn from the waterside at St Goar looking downstream to Burg Rheinfels, the largest castle fortress on the Middle Rhine apart from Ehrenbreitstein (see no.24), and, in the distance, the graceful and much smaller Burg Maus.</p>
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architecture boat - non-specific castle cities, towns, villages (non-UK) countries and continents Germany hill house landscape military natural features (non-UK) places residential river River Rhine rocky society St Goar, Burg Rheinfels townscape townscapes / man-made features transport: water water: inland
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