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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Three Sketches of Cologne from the Rhine: A Woman 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Three Sketches of Cologne from the Rhine: A Woman’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 71 Verso:
Three Sketches of Cologne from the Rhine: A Woman 1835
D30766
Turner Bequest CCCIV 71 a
Pencil on cream laid paper, 118 x 190 mm
Watermark ‘jh[&z]’
Inscribed in pencil ‘Bon’ top right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Here Turner has produced three sketches of Cologne from the Rhine. Great Saint Martin Church, the Cathedral, St Gereon’s Basilica and St Cunibert’s are among a few of the city’s many religious buildings seen here. Also visible is the Town Hall and the Bayenturm, a tower built to fortify Cologne in the thirteenth century. See also Tate D30762; Turner Bequest 69a.
The figure of a woman can be seen at top right. Just above her is the inscription ‘Bon’.

Alice Rylance-Watson
December 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Three Sketches of Cologne from the Rhine: A Woman 1835 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, December 2015, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, August 2017, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-three-sketches-of-cologne-from-the-rhine-a-woman-r1187141, accessed 01 April 2026.