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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Two Sketches Looking up the Neckar towards Neckargemünd 1833

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Two Sketches Looking up the Neckar towards Neckargemünd’ 1833
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 27 Recto:
Two Sketches Looking up the Neckar towards Neckargemünd 1833
D29866
Turner Bequest CCXCVIII 27
Pencil on off-white lined paper, 110 x 165 mm
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘27’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CCXCVIII 27’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner depicts the Neckar valley looking upriver towards Neckargemünd in two sketches, one having been rendered in accordance with the foliation and squared-off.

Alice Rylance-Watson
May 2017

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Two Sketches Looking up the Neckar towards Neckargemünd 1833 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 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-two-sketches-looking-up-the-neckar-towards-neckargemund-r1203126, accessed 02 April 2026.