Graphite, watercolour and pen on paper
Rheinfelden Sketchbook
Rheinfelden Sketchbook
Switzerland
Tate Collection
Works with images
Joseph Mallord William Turner
Turner Bequest
Collection
Turner owned by Tate
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Rheinfelden NorthWest
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
architecture
bridge
bridges and viaducts
cities, towns, villages (non-UK)
countries and continents
medieval
natural features (non-UK)
periods and styles
places
Rheinfelden
river
River Rhine
Switzerland
townscape, distant
townscapes / man-made features
water: inland
<p>When Ruskin eventually visited Rheinfelden for himself in 1858, he was quick to notice how Turner had improved on reality. He remarked in a letter to his father that these sketches were 'all very like except only that the town, which Turner has made about the size of Strasburg, consists of one street and a few lanes, and what he has drawn as mountains are only the wooded Jura, but pretty in shape'. Ruskin used nos.87 and 89 as illustrations for his discussion of Turnerian topography in the fifth volume of 'Modern Painters', and considered the latter study 'Exquisitely beautiful'. On the other hand, he viewed no.90 as 'a thoroughly bad sketch (for Turner); every way slovenly and substanceless'.</p><p><em>Gallery label, February 1995</em></p>
paper unique graphite watercolour pen
Rheinfelden from the North-West
support: 228 × 330 mm
Accepted by the nation as part of the <a href="/search?gid=999999781" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Turner Bequest</a> 1856
<p>When Ruskin eventually visited Rheinfelden for himself in 1858, he was quick to notice how Turner had improved on reality. He remarked in a letter to his father that these sketches were 'all very like except only that the town, which Turner has made about the size of Strasburg, consists of one street and a few lanes, and what he has drawn as mountains are only the wooded Jura, but pretty in shape'. Ruskin used nos.87 and 89 as illustrations for his discussion of Turnerian topography in the fifth volume of 'Modern Painters', and considered the latter study 'Exquisitely beautiful'. On the other hand, he viewed no.90 as 'a thoroughly bad sketch (for Turner); every way slovenly and substanceless'.</p>
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architecture bridge bridges and viaducts cities, towns, villages (non-UK) countries and continents medieval natural features (non-UK) periods and styles places Rheinfelden river River Rhine Switzerland townscape, distant townscapes / man-made features water: inland
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