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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Eltville; Rüdesheim and the Johannisburg; The Drachenfels and the Seven Hills; 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Eltville; Rüdesheim and the Johannisburg; The Drachenfels and the Seven Hills;’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 6 Verso:
Eltville; Rüdesheim and the Johannisburg; The Drachenfels and the Seven Hills; 1835
D30642
Turner Bequest CCCIV 6 a
Pencil on cream laid paper, 190 x 118 mm
Watermark ‘[jan honig & z]onen’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the sketchbook turned upside down, here Turner depicts buildings at Eltville on the Rhine. Eltville’s fourteenth-century Electoral Castle can be seen at top right. To the left of it is the town’s parish church, dedicated to Saint Peter and Saint Paul.
Below this sketch is a view of the Rhenish town of Rüdesheim with St James’s Parish Church on the banks of the river and the Schloss Johannisberg on the hill to the right of the town (see also Tate D30644; Turner Bequest CCCIV 7a). Between the sketches of Eltville and Rüdesheim is a view of the Drachenfels and the Siebengebirge (‘Seven Hills’), continued from the folio opposite (Tate D30643; Turner Bequest CCCIV 7).

Alice Rylance-Watson
November 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Eltville; Rüdesheim and the Johannisburg; The Drachenfels and the Seven Hills; 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-eltville-rudesheim-and-the-johannisburg-the-drachenfels-and-r1187023, accessed 17 May 2024.