
Not on display
- Artist
- Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
- Part of
- Fribourg Sketchbook
- Medium
- Graphite and watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- Support: 235 × 336 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
- Reference
- D33554
Turner Bequest CCCXXXV 14
Display caption
A sheet from the sketchbook that Turner devoted to the Swiss town of Fribourg in 1841. Like Luxembourg, Fribourg attracted him for its dramatic setting in a steep ravine. Its clusters of ancient houses huddled beneath precipices and its towers rising from rocky peaks formed a striking contrast of the natural and the man-made: urban civilisation could be seen to exist only tenuously in a wild and awe-inspiring setting.
Gallery label, June 1993
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