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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Three Sketches of Towns on the Waal Branch of the Rhine; A Sailing Ship 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Three Sketches of Towns on the Waal Branch of the Rhine; A Sailing Ship’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 5 Recto:
Three Sketches of Towns on the Waal Branch of the Rhine; A Sailing Ship 1835
D30639
Turner Bequest CCCIV 5
Pencil on cream laid paper, 190 x 118 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Gorcum’ top centre towards centre
Watermark ‘[jan honig] & zo’
Stamped in black ‘CCCIV–5’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
These are views of towns on the River Waal, including Gorichem. The drawing inscribed ‘Gorcum’ shows Gorichem’s church. A sailing ship is rendered at centre, orientated inversely relative to the other sketches.

Alice Rylance-Watson
November 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Three Sketches of Towns on the Waal Branch of the Rhine; A Sailing Ship 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-three-sketches-of-towns-on-the-waal-branch-of-the-rhine-a-r1187020, accessed 25 April 2024.