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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Schaffhausen: Looking across the Fall from above on the Right Bank 1802

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Schaffhausen: Looking across the Fall from above on the Right Bank’ 1802
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Schaffhausen: Looking across the Fall from above on the Right Bank 1802
D02207
Turner Bequest XLVII 30
Pencil on white wove paper, 333 x 469 mm
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram below right of centre
Stamped in black ‘XLVII 30’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Made with the page turned horizontally, this is one of six studies at Schaffhausen in this sketchbook; the others are D02203, D02206, D02208, D02229 and D02230 (Turner Bequest XLVII 26, 29, 31, 52, 53). Turner may have referred to this broad study when he made a drawing of Schaffhausen intended for engraving in the Liber Studiorum series (Tate D08180; Vaughan Bequest CXVIII Z).
Technical notes:
For a proposed sequence for the leaves of the disbound Fonthill sketchbook, with this page as folio 46, see the Introduction.
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Andrew Wilton
March 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Schaffhausen: Looking across the Fall from above on the Right 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-looking-across-the-fall-from-above-on-the-right-r1174264, accessed 24 November 2024.