J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours

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Joseph Mallord William Turner ?Grindelwald: Mountains 1802

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?Grindelwald: Mountains’ 1802
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 25 Recto:
?Grindelwald: Mountains 1802
D04680
Turner Bequest LXXVI 25
Pencil on white laid paper, 156 x 201 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘25’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘LXXVI 25’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Perhaps another sketch made near Grindelwald, for Turner’s views of which in this sketchbook see especially folio 19 (D04674), and for the village and Turner’s work there, the Rhine, Strassburg, Oxford sketchbook, folio 29 (Tate D04769; Turner Bequest LXXVII 29).

David Blayney Brown
March 2004

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘?Grindelwald: Mountains 1802 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 2004, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2012, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-grindelwald-mountains-r1133155, accessed 18 September 2024.