Koblenz | Europe | Andernach | Rheinland-Pfalz | Germany
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Exhibition History:
Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2008-06-09 - 2008-08-17)Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art (The State Hermitage Museum, 2007-10-23 - 2008-01-13)Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art (Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 2007-07-11 - 2007-09-30)J.M.W. Turner (Museum Folkwang, 2001-09-14 - 2002-01-06)J.M.W. Turner (Kunsthaus Zurich, 2002-02-26 - 2002-05-26)Translations - Turner and Printmaking (Yale Center for British Art, 1993-09-29 - 1993-12-05)JMW Turner, Cologne and the Rhine (Wallraff-Richartz-Museum, 1980-10-09 - 1980-11-30)
Publications:
Eric M. Lee, Translations : Turner and printmaking, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1993, p. 39, no. 156, NJ18 .T85 L44 1993 (YCBA)Joseph Mallord William Turner, J. M. William Turner : Koln und der Rhein : Aquarelle, Zeichnungen, Skizzenbucher, Stiche, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, 11. October bis 30. November 1980, Auf Deutsch, Cologne, 1980, p. 49, no. 8, NJ18 .T85 B67 +Oversize (YCBA)William Turner : licht und farbe : eine Ausstellung in Zusammenarbeit mit Tate, SMB-DuMont, Cologne, 2001, pp. 121, 299, no. 50, NJ18 T85 W57515Andrew Wilton, The life and work of J.M.W. Turner, Academy Editions, London, 1979, p. 376, No. 662, NJ18 T85 +W577 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Yale Center for British Art, Great British watercolors : from the Paul Mellon Collection, Yale University Press, New Haven, 2007, pp. 108-109, no. 46, ND1928 .Y35 2007 (LC)+ Oversize (YCBA)
Gallery Label:
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. Gallery label for Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2008-06-09 - 2008-08-17)