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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The Rhine near Oberwesel; The Ocksturm at Oberwesel 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Rhine near Oberwesel; The Ocksturm at Oberwesel’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 56 Verso:
The Rhine near Oberwesel; The Ocksturm at Oberwesel 1839
D28462
Turner Bequest CCXC 56 a
Pencil on flecked off-white wove paper, 163 x 100 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
These rough sketches rendered in free, fluid line depict the River Rhine flowing through Oberwesel and the medieval ‘Ox Tower’, the Ochsenturm (see Tate D28459–D28461, Turner Bequest CCXC 55–56).

Alice Rylance-Watson
July 2013

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘The Rhine near Oberwesel; The Ocksturm at Oberwesel 1839 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, July 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, November 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-the-rhine-near-oberwesel-the-ocksturm-at-oberwesel-r1150745, accessed 27 April 2024.