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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Baden, from the Zurich Road 1802

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Baden, from the Zurich Road’ 1802
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 63 Recto:
Baden, from the Zurich Road 1802
D04720
Turner Bequest LXXVI 63
Pencil on white laid paper, 156 x 201 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘63’, descending vertically, and ‘610’ bottom left
Stamped in black ‘LXXVI 63’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This subject was first recognised by Robert Upstone. For the various views of Baden in this sketchbook and their subsequent development, see folios 10 and 15 verso (D04658, D04668), and for Castle Stein, folios 58 and 59 (D04715, D04716). Like folios 10 and 15 verso, this slight sketch was presumably a first impression jotted down as Turner approached from Zurich, taking in Castle Stein on its crag and the old town in the valley of the River Limmat below. It too served as the basis for a later watercolour, a colour study made about 1803 (Tate D04899; Turner Bequest LXXX F).

David Blayney Brown
March 2004

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Baden, from the Zurich Road 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-baden-from-the-zurich-road-r1133196, accessed 23 April 2024.