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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner ?The East Bank of the Rhine near Andernach; Andernach, Looking Upstream, with Boats; Anderach, Looking Upstream, with Boats The Rhine near the Marxburg 1833

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?The East Bank of the Rhine near Andernach; Andernach, Looking Upstream, with Boats; Anderach, Looking Upstream, with Boats The Rhine near the Marxburg’ 1833
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 63 Recto:
?The East Bank of the Rhine near Andernach; Andernach, Looking Upstream, with Boats; Anderach, Looking Upstream, with Boats The Rhine near the Marxburg 1833
D29716
Turner Bequest CCXCVI 62
Pencil on cream wove paper, 185 x 113 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘above Markburg’ centre towards bottom right
Inscribed in red ink by Ruskin ‘62’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCXCVI 62’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The two uppermost sketches form one view, possibly showing the east bank of the Rhine near Andernach. Andernach is depicted in the sketch below, with boats moored on the river, the distant onion dome of the Archbishop’s Castle at left, the watchtower and the spires of St Mary Assumption Church rendered in profile at right (see Tate D12795, D12880, D12655–D12656, D19838; Turner Bequest CLX 49, 92, CLIX 79a–80, CCXVI 144). The rear view shows part of Andernach, looking upstream (inscribed ‘above Markburg’).

Alice Rylance-Watson
February 2017

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘?The East Bank of the Rhine near Andernach; Andernach, Looking Upstream, with Boats; Anderach, Looking Upstream, with Boats The Rhine near the Marxburg 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-the-east-bank-of-the-rhine-near-andernach-andernach-looking-r1203014, accessed 05 April 2026.