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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1830-35 Annual tourist > Southern Germany, Austria and Venice ... > Brussels up to Mannheim - Rhine ... > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Three Boats; Canopied Boat, with the Rheingau in the Background; Schloss Biebrich, Looking Downstream; Two Boats 1833

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Three Boats; Canopied Boat, with the Rheingau in the Background; Schloss Biebrich, Looking Downstream; Two Boats’ 1833
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 1 Recto:
Three Boats; Canopied Boat, with the Rheingau in the Background; Schloss Biebrich, Looking Downstream; Two Boats 1833
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Turner Bequest CCXCVI 1
Pencil and pen and ink on cream wove paper, 185 x 113 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Boat Reingard’ right
Signed in black ink by Charles Turner and inscribed ‘No 337 Contains 86 Leaves | Pencil Sketches all on both sides’ and signed in pencil by John Prescott Knight ‘JPK’ and Charles Locke Eastlake ‘C.L.E’
Inscribed in red ink by Ruskin ‘1’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCXCVI 1’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
These sketches show sailing vessels and a canopied barge in the Rhinegau (inscribed ‘Rheinhard’) near Wiesbaden, Germany. Schloss Beibrich, formerly the residence of the Dukes of Nassau, is depicted from a distance in the rear sketch.
Endorsements from the executors of Turner’s estate (Charles Turner, John Prescott Knight and Charles Locke Eastlake) are inscribed at top left.

Alice Rylance-Watson
February 2017

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Three Boats; Canopied Boat, with the Rheingau in the Background; Schloss Biebrich, Looking Downstream; Two Boats 1833 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, February 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-three-boats-canopied-boat-with-the-rheingau-in-the-r1202893, accessed 15 January 2025.