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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner

Joseph Mallord William Turner Two Views up the River Rhine towards Oberwesel and the Schönburg; View down the Rhine to 'The Brothers' 1817

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Two Views up the River Rhine towards Oberwesel and the Schönburg; View down the Rhine to 'The Brothers'’ 1817
Folio 93 Recto:
Two Views up the River Rhine towards Oberwesel and the Schönburg; View down the Rhine to ‘The Brothers’ 1817
D12878
Turner Bequest CLX 91
Pencil on white wove paper, 150 x 94 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Rock’ towards bottom left and ‘Lavenstein’ bottom right
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘91’ bottom left, and ‘258’ top left (faint), both upside down
Stamped in black ‘CLX – 91’ top left, upside down
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
For these subjects, drawn with the page inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, and watercolours based on them see notes to folio 92 verso opposite (D12877; Turner Bequest CLX 90a), where the bottom sketch is continued.

David Blayney Brown
July 2025

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Two Views up the River Rhine towards Oberwesel and the Schönburg; View down the Rhine to ‘The Brothers’ 1817’, catalogue entry, July 2025, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, June 2026, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/two-views-up-the-river-rhine-towards-oberwesel-and-the-schonburg-view-down-the-rhine-to-r1212250, accessed 01 August 2026.