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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Near Grindelwald; Glacier and Lower Slopes of the Schreckhorn 1802

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Near Grindelwald; Glacier and Lower Slopes of the Schreckhorn’ 1802
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 23 Recto:
Near Grindelwald; Glacier and Lower Slopes of the Schreckhorn 1802
D04678
Turner Bequest LXXVI 23
Pencil on white laid paper, 201 x 156 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Schreckhorn’ lower centre
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘23’ top right
Stamped in black ‘LXXVI 23’ top right, running vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
For Turner’s views of Grindelwald, near which he made this sketch, in this sketchbook, see especially folio19 (D04674), and for the village and Turner’s work there, the Rhine, Strassburg, Oxford sketchbook, especially folio 29 (Tate D04768; Turner Bequest LXXVII 29).
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David Blayney Brown
March 2004

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Near Grindelwald; Glacier and Lower Slopes of the Schreckhorn 1802 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 2004, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2012, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-near-grindelwald-glacier-and-lower-slopes-of-the-schreckhorn-r1133153, accessed 19 April 2024.