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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Switzerland 1802 > St Gothard and Mont Blanc Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Unterseen; the Village Square, Rathaus and Church, the Jungfrau in the Distance 1802

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Unterseen; the Village Square, Rathaus and Church, the Jungfrau in the Distance’ 1802
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 39 Recto:
Unterseen; the Village Square, Rathaus and Church, the Jungfrau in the Distance 1802
D04631
Turner Bequest LXXV 39
Pencil on white wove paper prepared with grey wash, 315 x 473 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘15’ bottom left
Stamped in black ‘LXXV 39’ bottom left, descending vertically
Blind-stamped with the Turner Bequest monogram towards bottom right
Turner’s label for this drawing, also numbered ‘15’, reads ‘Unterseen, Jungfrau’ and was evidently the basis for Finberg’s identification of the subject. Turner reached Unterseen, a large village on a spit of land between the Lakes of Thun and Brienz, by water from Thun. Hill imagines the artist and his travelling companion Newbey Lowson staying there overnight, and rejoining their transport which had been sent round by road from Thun. Hill notes that the weather must have been fine for their visit as the Jungfrau appears in this drawing without cloud. In another sketch at Unterseen from the same sketchbook, Turner drew villagers resting under fruit trees (D04633; Turner Bequest LXXV 41).
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David Blayney Brown
October 2011

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Unterseen; the Village Square, Rathaus and Church, the Jungfrau in the Distance 1802 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, October 2011, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, August 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-unterseen-the-village-square-rathaus-and-church-the-jungfrau-r1146497, accessed 23 September 2024.