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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner View up the Main from Mainz 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘View up the Main from Mainz’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 70 Verso:
View up the Main from Mainz 1839
D28490
Turner Bequest CCXC 70 a
Pencil on flecked off-white wove paper, 100 x 163 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Main’ at centre; ‘Raft’ centre towards right; ‘W’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This slight and undeveloped sketch depicts the River Main, a right tributary of the Rhine which flows away from Mainz at the east of the city. Turner has labelled the drawing with the river’s name and also with the word ‘Raft’, the type of boat to which he refers in folio 70 recto (Tate D28489; Turner Bequest CCXC 70).

Alice Rylance-Watson
July 2013

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘View up the Main from Mainz 1839 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, July 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, November 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-view-up-the-main-from-mainz-r1150773, accessed 25 April 2024.