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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Schaffhausen: The Rim of the Fall Seen from the Right Bank of the Rhine 1802

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Schaffhausen: The Rim of the Fall Seen from the Right Bank of the Rhine’ 1802
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Schaffhausen: The Rim of the Fall Seen from the Right Bank of the Rhine 1802
D02230
Turner Bequest XLVII 53
Pencil on white wove paper, 330 x 469 mm
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram bottom right
Stamped in black ‘XLVII 53’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Made with the page turned horizontally, this is one of six studies at Schaffhausen in this sketchbook; the others are D02203, D02206–D02208, D02229 (Turner Bequest XLVII 26, 29, 30, 31, 52).
Technical notes:
For a proposed sequence for the leaves of the disbound Fonthill sketchbook, with this page as folio 47, see the Introduction.
Verso:
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Andrew Wilton
March 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Schaffhausen: The Rim of the Fall Seen from the Right Bank of the Rhine 1802 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, April 2015, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-schaffhausen-the-rim-of-the-fall-seen-from-the-right-bank-of-r1174265, accessed 19 April 2024.