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 Wassen: the Village, Bridge and Church 1802

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Wassen: the Village, Bridge and Church’ 1802
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 54 Recto:
Wassen: the Village, Bridge and Church 1802
D04646
Turner Bequest LXXV 54
Pencil and black chalk on white wove paper prepared with grey wash, 315 x 473 mm
Inscribed by Ruskin in blue ink ‘13’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘LXXV 54’ bottom left, descending vertically
Blind-stamped with the Turner Bequest monogram bottom right
See notes to D04645; Turner Bequest LXXV 53 from this sketchbook, a view of the same place described by Finberg as near Chamonix but identifiable as Wassen. In this instance this is confirmed by Turner’s label, numbered ‘13’ as is the drawing and reading ‘St Gothard’ and ‘Wasen’. For Turner’s visit to the St Gotthard Pass and Reuss gorge in 1802 see Introduction to the sketchbook and notes to D04628; Turner Bequest LXXV 36.
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David Blayney Brown
October 2011

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Wassen: the Village, Bridge and Church 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-wassen-the-village-bridge-and-church-r1146510, accessed 18 September 2024.