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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Laufenburg: General View of the Town 1802

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Laufenburg: General View of the Town’ 1802
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Laufenburg: General View of the Town 1802
D02232
Turner Bequest XLVII 55
Pencil on white wove paper, the sheet stained brown in places, 330 x 469 mm
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram bottom right
Stamped in black ‘XLVII 55’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Drawn with the page turned horizontally, this is one of four views of Laufenburg in this sketchbook; the others are D02204, D02205 and D02233 (Turner Bequest XLVII 27, 28, 56).
Technical notes:
The staining of the sheet is evidently a consequence of its having been stuck down on to a panel or acidic board for the purpose of displaying it in the nineteenth-century Oxford Loan Collection. For a proposed sequence for the leaves of the disbound Fonthill sketchbook, with this page as folio 40, see the Introduction.
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Andrew Wilton
March 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Laufenburg: General View of the Town 1802 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, April 2015, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-laufenburg-general-view-of-the-town-r1174258, accessed 22 November 2024.