Joseph Mallord William Turner

Sketches Cologne, from the Rhine

1835

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Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of
Prague, Nuremberg, Frankfurt and Rhine Sketchbook
Medium
Graphite on paper
Dimensions
Support: 118 × 190 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D30762
Turner Bequest CCCIV 69 a

Catalogue entry

Here Turner has sketched aspects of Cologne, a city of many churches, from his boat on the Rhine (see also D19844, D30763, D30766, D30778; Turner Bequest CCXVI 147, CCCIV 70, 71a, 77a). The drawing inscribed ‘Mulin’ is a view of the nearby town of Mülheim, located a few moments downstream from Cologne. Mülheim’s Church of St Clemens is depicted at bottom left, on the riverbank.

Alice Rylance-Watson
December 2015

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