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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Mainz: The Cathedral from the North‑West 1833

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Mainz: The Cathedral from the North‑West’ 1833
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 40 Recto:
Mainz: The Cathedral from the North‑West 1833
D29672
Turner Bequest CCXCVI 39
Pencil on cream wove paper, 113 x 185 mm
Inscribed in red ink by Ruskin ‘39’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCXCVI 39’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is a rough sketch of Mainz’s Cathedral, depicted from the northwest. For other depictions of Mainz in this sketchbook see Tate See also Tate D29625, D29674– D29675, D29753, D29764–D29766; Turner Bequest CCXCVI 15, 40–41, 80a, 88–89. For earlier drawings of Mainz see the Itinerary Rhine Tour and Waterloo and Rhine sketchbooks of 1817 (Tate D12621–D12623, D12832, D12834–D12837; Turner Bequest CLIX 59–60, CLX 67a, 68a–70). For 1839 views see Tate D28470, D28483–D28485, D28587, D28488–D28491; Turner Bequest CCXC 60a, 67–68, 69–71.

Alice Rylance-Watson
February 2017

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Mainz: The Cathedral from the North‑West 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-northwest-r1202970, accessed 05 April 2026.