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 ?The Kramgasse, Berne 1802

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?The Kramgasse, Berne’ 1802
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 65 Verso:
?The Kramgasse, Berne 1802
D04725
Turner Bequest LXXVI 65a
Pencil on white laid paper, 156 x 201 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
If this identification is correct (the Clock Tower looks different today but may have been altered), this is the only inner-city sketch of Berne so far found in Turner’s sketchbooks of 1802, although this one was certainly bought in the city.

David Blayney Brown
March 2004

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘?The Kramgasse, Berne 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-the-kramgasse-berne-r1133201, accessed 20 September 2024.