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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Three Sketches of the Rhine Gorge 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Three Sketches of the Rhine Gorge’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 15 Recto:
Three Sketches of the Rhine Gorge 1835
D30659
Turner Bequest CCCIV 15
Pencil on cream laid paper, 190 x 118 mm
Watermark ‘jh[&z]’
Stamped in black ‘CCCIV–15’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Here Turner has produced three rough sketches of the Rhine Gorge between Coblenz and Bingen in Germany.

Alice Rylance-Watson
November 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Three Sketches of the Rhine Gorge 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-three-sketches-of-the-rhine-gorge-r1187040, accessed 21 November 2024.