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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Three Views of Beilstein, Looking Upstream, Each from slightly further Downstream than the Last 1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Three Views of Beilstein, Looking Upstream, Each from slightly further Downstream than the Last’ 1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 121 Verso:
Three Views of Beilstein, Looking Upstream, Each from slightly further Downstream than the Last 1824
D19789
Turner Bequest CCXVI 119 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 118 x 78 mm
Watermark ‘smith & [allnut] | 18[22]’
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Bilielstein’ top left
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Drawing from a distant vantage point at Ellenz, here Turner has made three swift sketches of Beilstein, including its Church of St Joseph and the Burg Metternich. See also Tate D19784, D19787, D19788, D19790, D19792, D20166, D20167; Turner Bequest CCXVI 117, 118a, 119, 120, 121, CCXIX 5, 6.

Alice Rylance-Watson
May 2014

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Three Views of Beilstein, Looking Upstream, Each from slightly further Downstream than the Last 1824 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2014, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, April 2015, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-three-views-of-beilstein-looking-upstream-each-from-slightly-r1174580, accessed 19 September 2024.