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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Mainz: The Cathedral from the East, with the Gutenberg House on the Right 1833

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Mainz: The Cathedral from the East, with the Gutenberg House on the Right’ 1833
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 42 Recto:
Mainz: The Cathedral from the East, with the Gutenberg House on the Right 1833
D29675
Turner Bequest CCXCVI 41
Pencil on cream wove paper, 113 x 185 mm
Inscribed in red ink by Ruskin ‘41’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCXCVI 41’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The Cathedral at Mainz is depicted from the east, with the seventeenth-century Haus zum Römischen Kaiser at right. This building is now the Gutenberg Museum, exhibiting the revolutionary work of the Mainz-born inventor of mechanical movable-type printing, Johannes Gutenberg (1398–1468). For more sketches of Mainz see Tate D29672; Turner Bequest CCXCVI 39.

Alice Rylance-Watson
February 2017

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Mainz: The Cathedral from the East, with the Gutenberg House on the Right 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-mainz-the-cathedral-from-the-east-with-the-gutenberg-house-r1202973, accessed 13 May 2025.