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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Schaffhausen: Looking down on the Fall from the Woods on the Left (South) Bank 1802

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Schaffhausen: Looking down on the Fall from the Woods on the Left (South) Bank’ 1802
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Schaffhausen: Looking down on the Fall from the Woods on the Left (South) Bank 1802
D02229
Turner Bequest XLVII 52
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 52’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Made with the page turned horizontally, this is one of six studies made at Schaffhausen in this sketchbook; the others are D02203, D02206–D02208 and D02230 (Turner Bequest XLVII 26, 29, 30, 31, 53).
Technical notes:
For a proposed sequence for the leaves of the disbound Fonthill sketchbook, with this page as folio 43, see the Introduction.
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Andrew Wilton
March 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Schaffhausen: Looking down on the Fall from the Woods on the Left (South) Bank 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-schaffhausen-looking-down-on-the-fall-from-the-woods-on-the-r1174261, accessed 25 April 2024.