
In Tate Britain
Prints and Drawings Room
View by appointment- Artist
- Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
- Part of
- Rheinfelden Sketchbook
- Medium
- Graphite and watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- Support: 229 × 329 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
- Reference
- D35152
Turner Bequest CCCXLIX 28
Display caption
This view has only recently been identified as showing Laufenburg, on the Rhine. In it Turner reworks a subject he had observed more than forty years earlier, on his very first tour of the Continent.
This work is typical of a handful of the watercolours he painted during his 1844 tour, in the unusually restrained, almost monochromatic treatment of the subject. Forms are invoked rather than stated,
as the eye attempts to bring them into focus. In this it resembles the great painting Norham Castle, Sunrise, which was also painted around this time (on display downstairs in room C1).
Gallery label, September 2004
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