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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Switzerland 1802 > Lake Thun Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner A Town 1802

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Town’ 1802
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 51 Verso:
A Town 1802
D40783
Pen and ink on white laid paper, 156 x 201 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘585’ top right, inverted
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Finberg notes that this sketch was obscured, the leaf having been ‘stuck down tight on cartridge’ to show only the recto (D04708). The sketch is very slight and its subject has not been identified but it appears to repeat part of the view drawn in pencil facing it on folio 52 (D04709).

David Blayney Brown
March 2004

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘A Town 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-a-town-r1133184, accessed 19 April 2024.