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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Mainz, Looking Downstream; Separate Sketches of the Bridge of Boats at Kastel, Houses, Boats 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Mainz, Looking Downstream; Separate Sketches of the Bridge of Boats at Kastel, Houses, Boats’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 71 Recto:
Mainz, Looking Downstream; Separate Sketches of the Bridge of Boats at Kastel, Houses, Boats 1839
D28491
Turner Bequest CCXC 71
Pencil on flecked off-white wove paper, 100 x 163 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘moles’ top centre; ‘white moles’ bottom centre towards right; ‘Flusbad’
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘71’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CCXC–71’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner pictures Mainz at centre, a view taken from downstream on the Rhine. The Cathedral of St Martin, the dome of Saint Stephen’s and the spire of Saint Peter’s Church are all in view. Above and below the prospect of Mainz are separate sketches of houses and boats, Turner inscribing the words ‘Flusbad’ (‘river pool’) and ‘white moles’ (a type of pier or jetty usually constructed of stone) around them. The jotting at the upper register also inscribed ‘moles’ is a continuation of the pontoon bridge depicted on Tate D28489; Turner Bequest CCXC 70.

Alice Rylance-Watson
July 2013

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Mainz, Looking Downstream; Separate Sketches of the Bridge of Boats at Kastel, Houses, Boats 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-looking-downstream-separate-sketches-of-the-bridge-of-r1150774, accessed 27 April 2024.