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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1787-1801 Student and master > Architectural and Other Subjects c.1797 ... > Fonthill Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Laufenburg, with the Bridge over the Rhine, from the Bed of the River 1802

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Laufenburg, with the Bridge over the Rhine, from the Bed of the River’ 1802
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Laufenburg, with the Bridge over the Rhine, from the Bed of the River 1802
D02204
Turner Bequest XLVII 27
Pencil on white wove paper, 330 x 469 mm
Watermark ‘J Whatman 1794’
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram bottom right
Stamped in black ‘XLVII 27’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Made with the page turned horizontally, this is a rough sketch that Turner was to use for a subject in the Liber Studiorum series; his watercolour design of about 1808 is Tate D08135 (Turner Bequest CXVII H), and the engraving was published in 1811 (Tate impressions: A00972, A00973). Other drawings of Laufenburg in this book are D02205, D02232 and D02233 (Turner Bequest XLVII 28, 55, 56).
Technical notes:
For a proposed sequence for the leaves of the disbound Fonthill sketchbook, with this page as folio 38, see the Introduction.
Verso:
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Andrew Wilton
March 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Laufenburg, with the Bridge over the Rhine, from the Bed of the River 1802 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, April 2015, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-laufenburg-with-the-bridge-over-the-rhine-from-the-bed-of-r1174256, accessed 23 April 2024.