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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner ?Ostend; Bingen, the Mäuseturm and Burg Ehrenfels, Looking Downstream from Rüdesheim; Bingen and the Mäuseturm from the Rhine, Looking Downstream 1833

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?Ostend; Bingen, the Mäuseturm and Burg Ehrenfels, Looking Downstream from Rüdesheim; Bingen and the Mäuseturm from the Rhine, Looking Downstream’ 1833
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 2 Verso:
?Ostend; Bingen, the Mäuseturm and Burg Ehrenfels, Looking Downstream from Rüdesheim; Bingen and the Mäuseturm from the Rhine, Looking Downstream 1833
D29598
Turner Bequest CCXCVI 2a
Pencil on cream wove paper, 113 x 185 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Bingen Custom House’ right
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘88’ bottom left (inversely)
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The uppermost sketch shows the harbour of Ostend, where Turner docked at the beginning of his 1833 tour. Ostend pier is depicted on the folio opposite (Tate D29599; Turner Bequest CCXCVI 3).
The remaining sketches were taken on the Rhine and show Bingen, the Mäuseturm and Burg Ehrenfels. Turner has inscribed ‘Bingen Custom House’ (the Mäuseturm) at right. Bingen and the Burg Ehrenfels are recorded in other sketchbooks throughout the Bequest, such as the Waterloo and Rhine and Rhine sketchbooks of 1817 (see Tate D12833, D12835, D12944–D12949; Turner Bequest CLX 68, 69, CLXI 33a–36).

Alice Rylance-Watson
February 2017

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘?Ostend; Bingen, the Mäuseturm and Burg Ehrenfels, Looking Downstream from Rüdesheim; Bingen and the Mäuseturm from the Rhine, Looking Downstream 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-ostend-bingen-the-mauseturm-and-burg-ehrenfels-looking-r1202896, accessed 22 July 2024.