Watercolor, gouache, pen and black ink and scratching out on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 7 7/8 x 12 5/8 inches (20 x 32.1 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1977.14.4287
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)
