Not on display
- Artist
- Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
- Medium
- Graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- Support: 229 × 327 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
- Reference
- D35181
Turner Bequest CCCLI 6 a
Display caption
This 'roll' sketchbook in grey paper covers is typical of those used towards the end of Turner's life and, thanks to its watermarked pages, it can be firmly linked with his last major tour, which took him to Switzerland in 1844. The book is largely devoted to rapid pencil sketches of castles, but it also contains a handful of watercolour studies which show that Turner was just as much excited by the sublimity and grandeur of the Rhine on his last visit there as he had been on his first, more than a quarter of a century earlier.
Gallery label, August 2004
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