Graphite on paper
Waterloo and Rhine Sketchbook
Germany
Tate Collection
Works with images
Joseph Mallord William Turner
Turner Bequest
Waterloo and Rhine Sketchbook
Collection
Turner owned by Tate
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Views Downstream MidRiver 1 to Bingen and Rüdesheim Rüdesheim to Right 2 to St Rochs Chapel Bingen and Rüdesheim 3 to Burg Klopp Bingen Maüseturm and Burg Ehrenfels 4 to Church at Bornhofen and Brothers
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
architecture
boat - non-specific
Burg Liebenstein
Burg Sterrenberg
castle
church
countries and continents
features
Germany
landscape
man-made landmarks (non-UK)
military
mountain
natural features (non-UK)
places
religious
river
River Rhine
society
spire
The Brothers
townscape, distant
townscapes / man-made features
transport: water
water: inland
<p>Turner used this sketchbook intensively for the first half of his 1817 tour, both at the Field of Waterloo and along the Rhine. All the sketches on ff.71v-72r belong to his return journey from Mainz to Cologne in late August. The elongated sketches extending across the top of the two pages were drawn from a boat bearing Turner downstream from the widest part of the Middle Rhine towards the Bingen gorge where the river becomes enclosed by steep hills. The last of these sketches later formed the basis of no.11. The final sketch shows the pilgrimage church at Bornhofen beneath the rocky ridge occupied by the two castles known as 'The Brothers'.</p><p><em>Gallery label, September 1991</em></p>
paper unique graphite
Views Downstream from Mid-River: (1) to Bingen and Rüdesheim (Sketch of Rüdesheim to Right); (2) to St Roch’s Chapel, Bingen and Rüdesheim; (3) to Burg Klopp, Bingen, the Maüseturm and Burg Ehrenfels; (4) to the Church at Bornhofen and ‘The Brothers’
support: 150 × 94 mm
Accepted by the nation as part of the <a href="/search?gid=999999781" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Turner Bequest</a> 1856
<p>Turner used this sketchbook intensively for the first half of his 1817 tour, both at the Field of Waterloo and along the Rhine. All the sketches on ff.71v-72r belong to his return journey from Mainz to Cologne in late August. The elongated sketches extending across the top of the two pages were drawn from a boat bearing Turner downstream from the widest part of the Middle Rhine towards the Bingen gorge where the river becomes enclosed by steep hills. The last of these sketches later formed the basis of no.11. The final sketch shows the pilgrimage church at Bornhofen beneath the rocky ridge occupied by the two castles known as 'The Brothers'.</p>
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architecture boat - non-specific Burg Liebenstein Burg Sterrenberg castle church countries and continents features Germany landscape man-made landmarks (non-UK) military mountain natural features (non-UK) places religious river River Rhine society spire The Brothers townscape, distant townscapes / man-made features transport: water water: inland
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