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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Distant View of the Rhine from the Hills above Mainz, Looking Downstream 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Distant View of the Rhine from the Hills above Mainz, Looking Downstream’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 64 Recto:
Distant View of the Rhine from the Hills above Mainz, Looking Downstream 1839
D28477
Turner Bequest CCXC 64
Pencil on flecked off-white wove paper, 100 x 163 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Bibrich’ top left towards centre; [?Mainz] top right
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘64’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CCXC–64’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This swiftly rendered landscape depicts the valley of the Rhine with its undulating hillsides near Mainz. Turner has inscribed what appears to read ‘Bibrich’ (i.e. Biebrich), a town on the outskirts of Wiesbaden, at top left.

Alice Rylance-Watson
July 2013

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Distant View of the Rhine from the Hills above Mainz, Looking Downstream 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-distant-view-of-the-rhine-from-the-hills-above-mainz-looking-r1150760, accessed 26 April 2024.