Joseph Mallord William Turner

Mannheim: View across the Bridge of Boats on the Rhine, Showing the Bridge over the Canal Linking the Rhine and the Neckar, the Jesuits’ Church and the Electoral Palace

1833

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Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of
Brussels up to Mannheim - Rhine Sketchbook
Medium
Graphite on paper
Dimensions
Support: 113 x 185 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D29755
Turner Bequest CCXCVI 81 a

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The first sketchbook Turner used in 1833 was the only one taken with him from London. It contains many careful studies of Belgian towns - Ostend, Bruges, Ghent, Liège, Huy and Namur - and small quick sketches of the Rhine between Cologne and Mannheim, evidently drawn whenever an opportunity arose. Mannheim was greatly praised by Turner's contemporaries for its elegance and beauty, the bridge of boats over the Rhine providing an excellent viewpoint of the large domed Jesuit church and Electoral Palace. Among the trees on the left is the bridge over the canal which links the Rhine and the Neckar. At Mannheim Turner left the Rhine to travel eastwards to Heidelberg.

Gallery label, April 1995

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