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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Switzerland 1802 > Lake Thun Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Laufenburg 1802

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Laufenburg’ 1802
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 14 Recto:
Laufenburg 1802
D04665
Turner Bequest LXXVI 14
Pen and ink on white laid paper, 156 x 201 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘14’ top left running vertically
Stamped in black ‘LXXVI 14’ top left, inverted
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
A very slight repetition of the town buildings sketched in pencil on folio 13 verso of this sketchbook (D04664), for which see note for the identification as Laufenburg. The verso of the present leaf (D04666) may also have a drawing of Laufenburg.

David Blayney Brown
March 2004

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Laufenburg 1802 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 2004, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2012, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-laufenburg-r1133140, accessed 21 November 2024.