'Baden from the River Limmat', Joseph Mallord William Turner | Tate

Artwork details

Artist

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775‑1851)

Title

Baden from the River Limmat

From Lake Thun Sketchbook

Turner Bequest LXXVI

Date 1802

MediumGraphite on paper

Dimensionssupport: 201 x 156 mm

Collection

Tate

Acquisition Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

Reference

D04722

Turner Bequest LXXVI 64

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Turner's sketchbooks

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Catalogue entry

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851

Folio 64 Recto:

Baden from the River Limmat 1802

D04722
Turner Bequest LXXVI 64

Pencil on white laid paper, 201 x 156 mm
Inscribed by john Ruskin in red ink ‘64’ and ‘609’ bottom left, running vertically
Stamped in black ‘LXXVI 64’ top right, running vertically

Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

References

The continuation of the drawing on folio 63 verso of this sketchbook (D04721), for which see catalogue note.

David Blayney Brown
March 2004

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This catalogue entry is part of: David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, December 2012.

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Context

Joseph Mallord William Turner

Geographic location

Switzerland

Sketchbooks

1802-18 Academician and professor

Sketchbooks from the 1800s

Lake Thun Sketchbook

Tate Collection

Gifts and bequests

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