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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The Niederwald and Schloss Johannisberg from the Rhine; View down the Rhine to Bingen, the Mäuseturm and Rüdesheim (in Two Instalments) 1833

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Niederwald and Schloss Johannisberg from the Rhine; View down the Rhine to Bingen, the Mäuseturm and Rüdesheim (in Two Instalments)’ 1833
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
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The Niederwald and Schloss Johannisberg from the Rhine; View down the Rhine to Bingen, the Mäuseturm and Rüdesheim (in Two Instalments) 1833
D29737
Turner Bequest CCXCVI 72a
Pencil on cream wove paper, 185 x 113 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Nede’ top left; ‘R[...] to Johburg’ top right towards centre; ‘2’ bottom right (inversely)
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘18’ bottom left (inversely)
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The uppermost sketch and the three that follow show the Rhine stretching from the Niederwald (inscribed and shortened to ‘Nede’), Rüdesheim to the Schloss Johannisberg (see Tate D29689; Turner Bequest CCXCVI 48 and The Johannisberg, a watercolour of 1817 in the collection of the British Museum, London). ‘R[...] to Johburg’ is inscribed towards top right.
A view showing the opposite bank of the river is rendered near the gutter of the sketchbook and in two installments (the second numbered ‘2’). Bingen, the Mäuseturm and Rüdesheim are depicted from a distance. ‘R’ is inscribed above Rüdesheim at right.

Alice Rylance-Watson
February 2017

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘The Niederwald and Schloss Johannisberg from the Rhine; View down the Rhine to Bingen, the Mäuseturm and Rüdesheim (in Two Instalments) 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-niederwald-and-schloss-johannisberg-from-the-rhine-view-r1203035, accessed 22 July 2025.