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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Mainz Cathedral from the East 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Mainz Cathedral from the East’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 67 Verso:
Mainz Cathedral from the East 1839
D28484
Turner Bequest CCXC 67 a
Pencil on flecked off-white wove paper, 100 x 163 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
As in the previous folio (Tate D28483; Turner Bequest CCXC 67) this view of the Cathedral of St Martin was taken from Mainz’s market square. Turner depicts the east chancel, the oldest part of the cathedral, which was partly destroyed in 1793 during the bombardment of Mainz and rebuilt in the early nineteenth century.1 There is another view of St Martin’s from the north-east on the folio opposite (Tate D28485; Turner Bequest CCXC 68).

Alice Rylance-Watson
July 2013

1
‘St Martin’s Cathedral’, Landeshauptstadt Mainz, http://www.mainz.de/WGAPublisher/online/html/default/mkuz-5v9eue.en.html, accessed 26 July 2013.

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Mainz Cathedral from the East 1839 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, July 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, November 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-mainz-cathedral-from-the-east-r1150767, accessed 19 April 2024.