In Tate Britain
Prints and Drawings Room
View by appointment- Artist
- Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
- Medium
- Gouache, pen and ink, graphite and watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- Support: 237 × 294 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
- Reference
- D36165
Turner Bequest CCCLXIV 308
Display caption
From 1842 Turner revived his youthful habit of allowing his patrons to select the subjects they wanted him to develop for them from his sketches. These were mostly views of Switzerland, but he also produced drawings of Coblenz for the writer John Ruskin from a study similar to this one.
Gallery label, August 2004
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