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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Mainz from the Rhine 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Mainz from the Rhine’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 61 Recto:
Mainz from the Rhine 1839
D28471
Turner Bequest CCXC 61
Pencil on flecked off-white wove paper, 100 x 163 mm
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘61’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CCXC–61’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
These very rough jottings of the profile of Mainz were taken on the Rhine and are similar to Tate D28470; Turner Bequest CCXC 60a. The Cathedral and St Stephan’s Church are encompassed in both prospects and the building with the mansard-shaped roof on the right is probably the Deutschhaus, a baroque palace constructed to be the seat of the Rhineland-Palatinate Landtag (general assembly).

Alice Rylance-Watson
July 2013

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Mainz from the Rhine 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-mainz-from-the-rhine-r1150754, accessed 19 September 2024.