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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Oppenheim; Church and River 1833

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Oppenheim; Church and River’ 1833
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 78 Verso:
Oppenheim; Church and River 1833
D29747
Turner Bequest CCXCVI 77 a
Pencil on cream wove paper, 113 x 185 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Openheim’ top left
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘13’ bottom left (inversely)
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Here Turner depicts a view of Oppenheim (inscribed ‘Openheim’) with a church and distant hills, most likely on the Rhine, below.

Alice Rylance-Watson
February 2017

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Oppenheim; Church and River 1833 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, February 2017, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, March 2023, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-oppenheim-church-and-river-r1203045, accessed 02 April 2026.