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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, Thomas Girtin The Junction of the Hinter- and Vorder-Rhein at Reichenau c.1797

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Thomas Girtin 1775–1802
The Junction of the Hinter- and Vorder-Rhein at Reichenau c.1797
D36546
Turner Bequest CCCLXXV 25
Pencil and grey and grey-blue wash on white wove paper, 301 x 479 mm
Watermark ‘1794 | J WHATMAN’
Stamped in black ‘CCCLXXV – 25’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Provenance:
Probably commissioned by Dr Thomas Monro
Monro’s posthumous sale, Christie’s, London, 26–28 June and 1–2 July 1833 (day and lot number not known)
Bought by or on behalf of Turner
The pencil work is by Girtin. This was copied from a sketch or watercolour, perhaps by John Robert Cozens (1752–1797).
Verso:
Blank; inscribed by Thomas Girtin in pencil ‘Richenau | Junction of the two Rhines’.

Andrew Wilton
April 2012

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘The Junction of the Hinter- and Vorder-Rhein at Reichenau c.1797 by Joseph Mallord William Turner, Thomas Girtin’, catalogue entry, April 2012, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2012, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-thomas-girtin-the-junction-of-the-hinter-and-vorder-rhein-at-r1141273, accessed 19 April 2024.