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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Four Sketches of Towns on the Waal Branch of the Rhine 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Four Sketches of Towns on the Waal Branch of the Rhine’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 4 Verso:
Four Sketches of Towns on the Waal Branch of the Rhine 1835
D30637
Turner Bequest CCCIV 4
Pencil on cream laid paper, 190 x 118 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Bomple’ top centre and ‘Alluvenstn’ bottom right
Watermark ‘[jan honig] & zo’
Stamped in black ‘CCCIV–4’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
These sketches were taken in the Netherlands as Turner navigated the Waal River towards Rotterdam. Turner has recorded the towns of Zaltbommel (‘Bomple’) and Loevestein (inscribed ‘Alluvenstn’) in views extending onto the opposite folio (Tate D30638; Turner Bequest CCCIV 5). Zaltbommel’s Church of Saint Martin and Gasthuis Tower are depicted in the top two sketches and Loevestein Castle is shown in the third sketch. Loevestein Castle is medieval, and fortified with stone bastions and a moat. The view at rear, orientated inversely to the others, is of Gorinchem, which is depicted again on Turner Bequest CCCIV 5.
Recto:
Blank.

Alice Rylance-Watson
November 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Four Sketches of Towns on the Waal Branch of the Rhine 1835 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, November 2015, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, August 2017, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-four-sketches-of-towns-on-the-waal-branch-of-the-rhine-r1187019, accessed 16 April 2024.