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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1830-35 Annual tourist > Southern Germany, Austria and Venice ... > Heidelberg up to Salzburg Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Three Sketches, probably at Heidelberg 1833

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Three Sketches, probably at Heidelberg’ 1833
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 8 Recto:
Three Sketches, probably at Heidelberg 1833
D29828
Turner Bequest CCXCVIII 8
Pencil on cream wove paper, 110 x 165 mm
Watermarked ‘j.whatman’
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘[...] over the D’ bottom right descending
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘8’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CCXCVIII 8’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
These rough sketches were probably taken in and around Heidelberg Castle. An archway or small bridge appears. ‘[...] over the D’ is inscribed.

Alice Rylance-Watson
May 2017

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Three Sketches, probably at Heidelberg 1833 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 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-three-sketches-probably-at-heidelberg-r1203088, accessed 20 May 2024.