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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Town in the ?Rhine Valley 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Town in the ?Rhine Valley’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 47 Recto:
A Town in the ?Rhine Valley 1839
D28628
Turner Bequest CCXCI 47
Pencil on cream laid writing paper, 100 x 156 mm
Watermarked ‘[& c[omp]’
Inscribed in red ink by Ruskin ‘47’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCXCI–47’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Here Turner has drawn the basic profile of a town, possibly in the Rhine valley, with a spired church at right similar to that shown on the folio opposite (Tate D28629; Turner Bequest CCXCI 47 a).

Alice Rylance-Watson
August 2013

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘A Town in the ?Rhine Valley 1839 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, August 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-a-town-in-the-rhine-valley-r1150912, accessed 26 April 2024.