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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The Pfaffensprung and Gorge of the River Reuss 1802

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Pfaffensprung and Gorge of the River Reuss’ 1802
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 72 Recto:
The Pfaffensprung and Gorge of the River Reuss 1802
D04732
Turner Bequest LXXVI 72
Pencil on white laid paper, 201 x 156 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘72’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘LXXVI 72’ top right, running vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The single arch of the Pfaffensprung or ‘Priests’ Leap’, otherwise known as the Little Devil’s Bridge, spans the Reuss near Wassen; Turner crossed it to reach the village, and made three drawings, the others being folio 73 in this sketchbook (D04733) and the larger one in his St Gothard and Mont Blanc sketchbook (Tate D04628; Turner Bequest LXXV 36). From these, he later developed his design (Tate D08123; Turner Bequest CXVI V) for the plate Little Devil’s Bridge in the Liber Studiorum.
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David Blayney Brown
March 2004

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘The Pfaffensprung and Gorge of the River Reuss 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-the-pfaffensprung-and-gorge-of-the-river-reuss-r1133209, accessed 26 April 2024.