Prints and Drawings Room
View by appointment- Artist
- Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
- Part of
- Rheinfelden Sketchbook
- Medium
- Graphite, watercolour and pen on paper
- Dimensions
- Support: 229 × 326 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
- Reference
- D35148
Turner Bequest CCCXLIX 24
Display caption
Ruskin thought that these drawings probably depicted subjects in the Tyrol. However, they have now been identified as views Turner painted while exploring the smaller valleys of the Rhine in 1844, in this case the River Nahe. Ruskin felt that no.81 was 'singularly grand and simple in conception; its colour exquisitely pure, and its execution at once delicate and vigorous. Nothing can be more magnificent than the standing of the buildings on the rock, the firm irregularity of their battlements, and the indications of sloping cleavage in the cliff itself'. In short, he believed that, 'This sketch cannot be too long or patiently studied'.
Gallery label, September 2004
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