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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner View down the Rhine to Burg Klopp, Bingen, the Mäuseturm and Rüdesheim; Rüdesheim 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘View down the Rhine to Burg Klopp, Bingen, the Mäuseturm and Rüdesheim; Rüdesheim’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 7 Verso:
View down the Rhine to Burg Klopp, Bingen, the Mäuseturm and Rüdesheim; Rüdesheim 1835
D30644
Turner Bequest CCCIV 7 a
Pencil on cream laid paper, 118 x 190 mm
Watermark ‘[jan honig & z]onen’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
These sketches show a stretch of the River Rhine around Bingen and Rüdesheim. Both towns are depicted in the uppermost sketch, the Burg Klopp visible atop a hill at left overlooking Bingen, while Rüdesheim is seen on the right bank. In the centre of the river is the Mäuseturm, an ancient tower first built by the Romans to defend the Rhine from attack and later used as customs collection point and signal tower.
Rüdesheim is shown again in the view at rear, with its parish church and the Castles Boosenburg and Brömserburg at centre. See also Tate D30645–D30651; Turner Bequest CCCIV 8–11.

Alice Rylance-Watson
November 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘View down the Rhine to Burg Klopp, Bingen, the Mäuseturm and Rüdesheim; Rüdesheim 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-view-down-the-rhine-to-burg-klopp-bingen-the-mauseturm-and-r1187025, accessed 17 May 2024.