'Grindelwald Church, the Wetterhorn Beyond', Joseph Mallord William Turner

Artwork details

Artist

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775‑1851)

Title

Grindelwald Church, the Wetterhorn Beyond

From Lake Thun Sketchbook

Turner Bequest LXXVI

Date 1802

MediumGraphite on paper

Dimensionssupport: 156 x 201 mm

Collection

Tate

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

Reference

D04675

Turner Bequest LXXVI 20

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Turner's sketchbooks

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Catalogue entry

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851

Folio 20 Recto:

Grindelwald Church, the Wetterhorn Beyond 1802

D04675
Turner Bequest LXXVI 20

Pencil on white laid paper, 156 x 201 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘G’ bottom right
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘20’ bottom right, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘LXXVI 20’ bottom right

Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

References

For Turner’s views of Grindelwald in this sketchbook, see especially folio19 (D04674), and for the village and Turner’s work there, the Rhine, Strassburg, Oxford sketchbook, especially folio 29 (Tate D04768; Turner Bequest LXXVII 29). David Hill notes this as Turner’s ‘first sketch of his first encounter’ with the surrounding mountainscape. He also notes that the viewpoint is from near the present Firstbahn station. The Wetterhorn rises behind the village church.

Verso:

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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.