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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Schaffhausen; Castle and Town 1802

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Schaffhausen; Castle and Town’ 1802
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 64 Verso:
Schaffhausen; Castle and Town 1802
D04723
Turner Bequest LXXVI 64a
Pencil on white laid paper, 201 x 156 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Finberg also noted: ‘This is a continuation of drawing on the page which came next in the original book, but I am not quite certain that this was the page now numbered 65’ (that is, the present folio 65, D04724, which he called only ‘Town with lake and mountains beyond’).
Despite Finberg’s reservations, this drawing does match up with that on folio 65 to form a double-page spread of Schaffhausen, with the castle in the present portion. Schaffhausen was Turner’s next stop after Baden, which he drew on the other side of this leaf (D04722) as part of another double-page spread. A closer view of Schaffhausen is on folio 75 (D04735). For the various views of Baden in this sketchbook, see especially folios 15 verso, 58 and 59 (Tate D04668, D04715, D04716).

David Blayney Brown
March 2004

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Schaffhausen; Castle and 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-schaffhausen-castle-and-town-r1133199, accessed 19 April 2024.