'The Lake of Brienz with Ringgenberg Castle', Joseph Mallord William Turner | Tate

Artwork details

Artist

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775‑1851)

Title

The Lake of Brienz with Ringgenberg Castle

From Rhine, Strassburg and Oxford Sketchbook

Turner Bequest LXXVII

Date 1802

MediumGraphite on paper

Dimensionssupport: 154 x 240 mm

Collection

Tate

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

Reference

D04761

Turner Bequest LXXVII 23 a

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Catalogue entry

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851

Folio 23 Verso:

The Lake of Brienz with Ringgenberg Castle 1802

D04761
Turner Bequest LXXVII 23a

Pencil on white wove paper, 154 x 240 mm

Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

References

Turner inverted the sketchbook to make this very slight sketch. With folio17 verso (D04753) – for which see catalogue note for further comment – it formed the basis of the watercolour Chateau de Rinkenberg, on the Lac de Brientz, Switzerland made in 1809 for Walter Fawkes (Taft Museum, Cincinnati),1 and for the intermediate study in the Grenoble series (Tate D04539; Turner Bequest LXXIV 46).

David Blayney Brown
March 2004

1

Wilton 1979, pp.343–4 no.388.

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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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1802-18 Academician and professor

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