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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Overlapping Sketches of Boppard and its Buildings Including the Church, Burg, Sandtor and Ritter‑Schwalbach Haus 1833

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Overlapping Sketches of Boppard and its Buildings Including the Church, Burg, Sandtor and Ritter‑Schwalbach Haus’ 1833
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 58 Recto
Overlapping Sketches of Boppard and its Buildings Including the Church, Burg, Sandtor and Ritter‑Schwalbach Haus 1833
D29706
Turner Bequest CCXCVI 57
Pencil on cream wove paper, 185 x 113 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Boppard’ right centre; ‘Gate at Boppard’ bottom
Inscribed in red ink by Ruskin ‘57’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCXCVI 57’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
These sketches show aspects of Boppard (inscribed right, centre) in the Rhine Gorge. Many of the town’s landmarks are depicted, including the twin-spired Church of Saint Severus, the tower of the electoral castle or Burg (centre left), various towers including the Sandtor, and the Ritter Ritter‑Schwalbach Haus (depicted in the rear view, surrounded by the city walls, the spires of St Severus Church in the background). Turner has inscribed ‘Gate at Boppard’ below the rear view.
For other views of Boppard, see Tate D12883, D12916–D12917, D12971–D12972, D28516, D29707; Turner Bequest CLX 93a, CLXI 20a–21, 47a–48, CCXC 82b, CCXCVI 57a.

Alice Rylance-Watson
February 2017

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Overlapping Sketches of Boppard and its Buildings Including the Church, Burg, Sandtor and Ritter‑Schwalbach Haus 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-overlapping-sketches-of-boppard-and-its-buildings-including-r1203004, accessed 02 September 2025.