Andernach

Andernach

J. M. W. Turner, 1817

Download4000 × 2512 px View on a wall Edit

Artist: J. M. W. Turner (British, 1775–1851)
Medium: Watercolor, gouache, pen and black ink and scratching out on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Size: Sheet: 7 7/8 x 12 5/8 inches (20 x 32.1 cm)
Museum: Yale Center for British Art
Rights: CC0 — no rights reserved

In 1817 Turner left England for his first tour of the Continent since 1802. It was a trip that would set the pattern for the rest of his career. Andernach belongs to a set of fifty watercolors worked up from the pencil sketches made along the Rhine in Germany. According to legend, Turner arrived at Farnley Hall to see his friend and patron Walter Fawkes on his return home in the fall of 1817. "Before he had even taken off his great-coat he produced these drawings rolled up slovenly and, anyhow, from his breast pocket." Walter Fawkes was suitably impressed and purchased the entire set of Rhine drawings on the spot for £500, a handsome reward for a couple of months' touring.

Text: Yale Center for British Art.

More by J. M. W. Turner

Venice: The Dogana and San Giorgio Maggiore

Venice: The Dogana and San Giorgio Maggiore

J. M. W. Turner, 1834

Fishing Boats with Hucksters Bargaining for Fish

Fishing Boats with Hucksters Bargaining for Fish

J. M. W. Turner, 1837–38

Lake Avernus: Aeneas and the Cumaean Sibyl

Lake Avernus: Aeneas and the Cumaean Sibyl

J. M. W. Turner, between 1814 and 1815

The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons, 16 October 1834

The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons, 16 October 1834

J. M. W. Turner, 1835

Conway Castle, North Wales

Conway Castle, North Wales

J. M. W. Turner, 1798

Dido building Carthage

Dido building Carthage

J. M. W. Turner, 1815

Keelmen Heaving in Coals by Moonlight

Keelmen Heaving in Coals by Moonlight

J. M. W. Turner, 1835

Staffa, Fingal's Cave

Staffa, Fingal's Cave

J. M. W. Turner, exhibited 1832

Dort, or Dordrecht: The Dort Packet-Boat from Rotterdam Becalmed

Dort, or Dordrecht: The Dort Packet-Boat from Rotterdam Becalmed

J. M. W. Turner, 1818

Approach to Venice

Approach to Venice

J. M. W. Turner, 1844

Calais Pier

J. M. W. Turner, 1803

The Junction of the Thames and the Medway

The Junction of the Thames and the Medway

J. M. W. Turner, 1807

Visually similar

Scene in Wales

Samuel Palmer, undated

View of the Ruins of Egmond Castle

View of the Ruins of Egmond Castle

Jacob van Ruisdael, c. 1655

Villa Salviati on the Arno

Villa Salviati on the Arno

J. M. W. Turner, between 1796 and 1797

A View of Susa, Italy, from the West

A View of Susa, Italy, from the West

John Ruskin, 1858

Foul by God: River Landscape with Anglers Fishing From a Weir

Foul by God: River Landscape with Anglers Fishing From a Weir

J. M. W. Turner, ca. 1830

A Street in Harborne

A Street in Harborne

David Cox, ca. 1808

A View of the Fens

A View of the Fens

John Linnell, undated

Classical Landscape: A Town and a Mountain by the Coast

Classical Landscape: A Town and a Mountain by the Coast

Francesco Zuccarelli, early–late 18th century

Villa in a Valley near Vietri sul Mare

Villa in a Valley near Vietri sul Mare

J. M. W. Turner, ca. 1794

Dedham Lock

John Constable, between 1819 and 1820

River Valley

Hercules Seghers, c. 1620

The Monks' Prayer by the Sea

The Monks' Prayer by the Sea

Alessandro Magnasco, 1682-1749