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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Schaffhausen: The Fall from the Left Bank 1802

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Schaffhausen: The Fall from the Left Bank’ 1802
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Schaffhausen: The Fall from the Left Bank 1802
D02206
Turner Bequest XLVII 29
Pencil on white wove paper, 338 x 469 mm
Watermark ‘J Whatman 1794’
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram bottom right
Stamped in black ‘XLVII 29’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Made with the page turned horizontally, this slight sketch is one of six studies made at Schaffhausen in the Fonthill sketchbook; the others are D02203, D02207, D02208, D02229 and D02230 (Turner Bequest XLVII 26, 30, 31, 52, 53). This and D02208 were used for reference for Turner’s large painting Fall of the Rhine at Schaffhausen, exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1806 (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston).1
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Butlin and Joll 1984, pp.48–9 no.61, pl.72 (colour).
Technical notes:
For a proposed sequence for the leaves of the disbound Fonthill sketchbook, with this page as folio 44, see the Introduction.
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Andrew Wilton
March 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Schaffhausen: The Fall from the Left Bank 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-schaffhausen-the-fall-from-the-left-bank-r1174262, accessed 21 November 2024.