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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1830-35 Annual tourist > Southern Germany, Austria and Venice ... > Brussels up to Mannheim - Rhine ... > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Nierstein; The Rhine near Oppenheim 1833

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Nierstein; The Rhine near Oppenheim’ 1833
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 78 Recto:
Nierstein; The Rhine near Oppenheim 1833
D29746
Turner Bequest CCXCVI 77
Pencil on cream wove paper, 185 x 113 mm
Inscribed in pencil ‘Nierstein’ top left
Inscribed in red ink by Ruskin ‘77’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCXCVI 77’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Saint Killian’s Church among the vineyards at ‘Nierstein’ is depicted in the uppermost view. Below are two sketches of the Rhine around Oppenheim

Alice Rylance-Watson
February 2017

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Nierstein; The Rhine near Oppenheim 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-nierstein-the-rhine-near-oppenheim-r1203044, accessed 04 April 2026.