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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, Thomas Girtin The Reichenbach in a Rocky Gorge c.1794-8

Joseph Mallord William Turner, Thomas Girtin, ‘The Reichenbach in a Rocky Gorge’ c.1794-8
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Thomas Girtin 1775–1802
Folio 5 Recto:
The Reichenbach in a Rocky Gorge c.1794–8
D36482
Turner Bequest CCCLXXIV 5
Pencil and grey, blue and blue-grey wash on white wove paper, 244 x 190 mm mounted on white cartridge paper, 480 x 368 mm
Inscribed in a later hand in pencil ‘“The Riquenbac”’ on mount, bottom left, descending vertically
Inscribed in pencil ‘5’ on mount, bottom right, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCCLXXIV – 5’ on mount, bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The work is mounted with the album page turned vertically. It is after a drawing by John Robert Cozens (1752–1797), executed for Richard Payne Knight and now in the British Museum, London (1900–4–11–31).1
1
Bell and Girtin 1935, p.31 no.24.
Verso:
Blank (laid down); the inscription (probably by Thomas Girtin in pencil) noted by Finberg and transcribed as the work’s title, ‘The Riquenbac’, is no longer apparent.

Andrew Wilton
April 2012

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘The Reichenbach in a Rocky Gorge c.1794–8 by Joseph Mallord William Turner, Thomas Girtin’, catalogue entry, April 2012, 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-thomas-girtin-the-reichenbach-in-a-rocky-gorge-r1140551, accessed 23 April 2024.