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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Switzerland 1802 > Rhine, Strassburg and Oxford Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Ruined Castle on Hill; ?St Chrischona 1802

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Ruined Castle on Hill; ?St Chrischona’ 1802
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 7 Recto:
Ruined Castle on Hill; ?St Chrischona 1802
D04742
Turner Bequest LXXVII 7
Pencil on white wove paper, 154 x 240 mm
Inscribed probably by John Ruskin in red ink ‘7’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘LXXVII – 7’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The subject may be the same as that on folio 6 of this sketchbook (D04741), which has an inscription possibly identifying it with St Chrischona, between Basle and Rheinfelden.
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David Blayney Brown
March 2004.

How to cite

‘Ruined Castle on Hill; ?St Chrischona 1802 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, 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-ruined-castle-on-hill-st-chrischona-r1133445, accessed 25 April 2024.