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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner

Joseph Mallord William Turner Ehrenbreitstein, Looking down the River Rhine from the West Bank; the Seven Hills and Rhine 1817

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Ehrenbreitstein, Looking down the River Rhine from the West Bank; the Seven Hills and Rhine’ 1817
Folio 43 Recto:
Ehrenbreitstein, Looking down the River Rhine from the West Bank; the Seven Hills and Rhine 1817
D12783
Turner Bequest CLX 43
Pencil on white wove paper, 150 x 94 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘258’ bottom right, and ‘43’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CLX – 43’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Both sketches here, looking downstream from Coblenz to Ehrenbreitstein at the top and across the Rhine to the Seven Hills in the middle, extend across folio 42 verso opposite (D12782); see catalogue entry.

David Blayney Brown
June 2025

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Ehrenbreitstein, Looking down the River Rhine from the West Bank; the Seven Hills and Rhine 1817’, catalogue entry, June 2025, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, June 2026, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/ehrenbreitstein-looking-down-the-river-rhine-from-the-west-bank-the-seven-hills-and-rhine-r1212151, accessed 31 July 2026.