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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1830-35 Annual tourist > Southern Germany, Austria and Venice ... > Brussels up to Mannheim - Rhine ... > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Hammerstein; Buildings on the River Front at Andernach; Andernach from the Rhine; View down the Rhine from Rhens towards Schloss Stolzenfels and the Martinsburg at Oberlahnstein; The Marxburg from the Rhine, Looking Upstream 1833

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Hammerstein; Buildings on the River Front at Andernach; Andernach from the Rhine; View down the Rhine from Rhens towards Schloss Stolzenfels and the Martinsburg at Oberlahnstein; The Marxburg from the Rhine, Looking Upstream’ 1833
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
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Hammerstein; Buildings on the River Front at Andernach; Andernach from the Rhine; View down the Rhine from Rhens towards Schloss Stolzenfels and the Martinsburg at Oberlahnstein; The Marxburg from the Rhine, Looking Upstream 1833
D29703
Turner Bequest CCXCVI 55a
Pencil on cream wove paper, 185 x 113 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Hamm’ top right, ‘Belongs to X’ top right towards centre, ‘X’ centre left, ‘Andernack’ | ‘Oberlanstein’ right centre, ‘Rintz’ bottom right, ‘Markburg’ bottom right
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘35’ bottom left (inversely)
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
These sketches show towns on the middle Rhine, to the north and south of Coblenz. The uppermost view depicts Hammerstein (inscribed ‘Hamm’) and the Burg Hammerstein overlooking it. The two views below are of Andernach (inscribed ‘Andernack’). Turner has inscribed the note ‘Belongs to X’ at right, with the corresponding ‘X’ inscribed at centre left on the Andernach waterfront. The Rhenish helm spires of St Mary’s Church are visible, as well as the Round Tower. The penultimate sketch shows the Rhine from Rhens (inscribed ‘Rintz’), looking towards Schloss Stolzenfels and the Martinsburg at Oberlahnstein (inscribed) at left (see Tate D29652, D29668, D29671; Turner Bequest CCXCVI 28a, 37, 28a). The sketch at rear shows the Marxburg (inscribed ‘Markburg’); see Tate D28521; Turner Bequest CCXC 83a.

Alice Rylance-Watson
February 2017

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Hammerstein; Buildings on the River Front at Andernach; Andernach from the Rhine; View down the Rhine from Rhens towards Schloss Stolzenfels and the Martinsburg at Oberlahnstein; The Marxburg from the Rhine, Looking Upstream 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-hammerstein-buildings-on-the-river-front-at-andernach-r1203001, accessed 20 May 2025.