'Meiringen', Joseph Mallord William Turner

Artwork details

Artist

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775‑1851)

Title

Meiringen

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

D04702

Turner Bequest LXXVI 45

View this artwork by appointment, at Tate Britain's Prints and Drawings Rooms

Turner's sketchbooks

View this artwork in the Lake Thun Sketchbook

Catalogue entry

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851

Folio 45 Recto:

Meiringen 1802

D04702
Turner Bequest LXXVI 45

Pencil on white laid paper, 156 x 201 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Meringen’ bottom right
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘45’ bottom right, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘LXXVI 45’ bottom right

Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

References

Turner reached Meiringen, in the Hasli valley, from Grindelwald over the Great Scheidegg pass; see note to folio 43 of this sketchbook (D04700). His main object here was the Reichenbachfall, above the town at the end of the valley. For another drawing of Meiringen, see folio 46 (D04703).

Verso:

Blank

David Blayney Brown
March 2004

Read this catalogue entry in full

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