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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner ?Laufenburg: Diligence and Travellers at a Landing Stage or Crossing Place; Distant Mountains 1802

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?Laufenburg: Diligence and Travellers at a Landing Stage or Crossing Place; Distant Mountains’ 1802
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 14 Verso
?Laufenburg: Diligence and Travellers at a Landing Stage or Crossing Place; Distant Mountains 1802
D04666
Turner Bequest LXXVI 14a
Pencil on white laid paper, 156 x 201 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Finberg’s title does not do justice to this subject. Besides the coach there may be a raft or boat in the foreground and at left is a large capstan or winch – not a house – to which the boat may be attached by a rope. A possible location for this sketch would be Laufenburg, where falls obstructed the progress of the Rhine and required boats to be raised and lowered for loading and unloading goods and passengers. For Laufenburg see chiefly folio 25 verso (D04681); there may be a further, very slight sketch of buildings in the town on the recto of the present leaf (D04665).

David Blayney Brown
March 2004

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘?Laufenburg: Diligence and Travellers at a Landing Stage or Crossing Place; Distant Mountains 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-diligence-and-travellers-at-a-landing-stage-or-r1133141, accessed 17 July 2024.