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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Schaffhausen: The Fall Seen from Below on the South Shore 1802

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Schaffhausen: The Fall Seen from Below on the South Shore’ 1802
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Schaffhausen: The Fall Seen from Below on the South Shore 1802
D02208
Turner Bequest XLVII 31
Pencil on white wove paper, 338 x 469 mm
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram below right of centre
Stamped in black ‘XLVII 31’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is one of six studies made at Schaffhausen in this sketchbook; the others are D02203, D02206, D02207, D02229 and D02230 (Turner Bequest XLVII 26, 29, 30, 52, 53). This one, made with the page turned horizontally, seems to have been the principal source for the large painting of the Fall of the Rhine at Schaffhausen that Turner showed at the Royal Academy in 1806 (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston).1
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Butlin and Joll 1984, pp.48–9 no.61, pl.72 (colour).
Technical notes:
For a proposed sequence for the leaves of the disbound Fonthill sketchbook, with this page as folio 45, see the Introduction.
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Andrew Wilton
March 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Schaffhausen: The Fall Seen from Below on the South Shore 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-the-fall-seen-from-below-on-the-south-shore-r1174263, accessed 19 September 2024.