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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Castle; Eltville, from the Rhine 1833

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Castle; Eltville, from the Rhine’ 1833
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 51 Recto:
Castle; Eltville, from the Rhine 1833
D29692
Turner Bequest CCXCVI 50
Pencil on cream wove paper, 185 x 113 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘D[...]’ top centre and centre towards top, ‘Elflet’ centre, ‘Ringau’ centre right, ‘S[...]’ centre towards bottom left, ‘V’ bottom left, ‘M[...] D[...] [...]’ bottom left, ‘S[...]’ bottom, ‘Elflet’ bottom right
Inscribed in red ink by Ruskin ‘50’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCXCVI 50’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
A Rhine castle is depicted in the uppermost sketch, inscribed twice, illegibly, ‘D[...]’. The remaining three sketches show Eltville on the Rhine. The Church of St Peter and St Paul and the turreted tower of the Electoral Castle are visible.
Various largely illegible inscriptions annotate the drawings: ‘Elfelt’ is inscribed at centre (presumably referring to Eltville), ‘Ringau’ for the Rheingau district is at centre right, ‘S[...]’ is at centre towards bottom left, ‘V’ is at bottom left, ‘M[...] D[...] [...]’ and ‘S[...]’ are at bottom left, and ‘Elfelt’ is at bottom right.

Alice Rylance-Watson
February 2017

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Castle; Eltville, from the Rhine 1833 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, February 2017, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, March 2023, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-castle-eltville-from-the-rhine-r1202990, accessed 03 May 2025.