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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Namur: The Citadel and View down the Meuse; Kastel and the Entrance to the Main from Mainz 1833

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Namur: The Citadel and View down the Meuse; Kastel and the Entrance to the Main from Mainz’ 1833
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
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Namur: The Citadel and View down the Meuse; Kastel and the Entrance to the Main from Mainz 1833
D29743
Turner Bequest CCXCVI 75a
Pencil on cream wove paper, 113 x 185 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Mayence’ bottom centre
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘15’ bottom left (inversely)
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Kastel, located on the right side of the Rhine opposite Mainz, is shown in the view inscribed ‘Mayence’ (the French for Mainz). A view of Namur, its citadel and the Meuse valley is rendered above, orientated with the sketchbook turned upside down relative to the foliation (see Tate D29620; Turner Bequest CCXCVI 12a).

Alice Rylance-Watson
February 2017

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Namur: The Citadel and View down the Meuse; Kastel and the Entrance to the Main from Mainz 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-namur-the-citadel-and-view-down-the-meuse-kastel-and-the-r1203041, accessed 02 August 2025.