Graphite, watercolour and pen on paper
Lausanne Sketchbook
Lausanne Sketchbook
Switzerland
Tate Collection
Works with images
Joseph Mallord William Turner
Turner Bequest
Collection
Turner owned by Tate
<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/joseph-mallord-william-turner-558" aria-label="More by Joseph Mallord William Turner" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Joseph Mallord William Turner</a>
Lausanne West
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
adults
architecture
bridge
bridges and viaducts
child
children
cities, towns, villages (non-UK)
countries and continents
figure
hill
landscape
Lausanne - non-specific
people
places
road
Switzerland
townscape, distant
townscapes / man-made features
valley
<p>Turner made a substantial number of watercolours while at Lausanne in 1841. He had also paused there five years before during a tour of the Alps with his friend H.A.J.Munro of Novar. In the intervening years work had begun on the viaduct known as the Grand-Pont, which spans the valley between the two halves of the town. It may have been this new feature that encouraged Turner to make more distant views from the western side of the town in 1841, and especially from the valley itself. Ruskin commented that it was characteristic of Turner in these sketches to record 'views of things which nobody else would have thought of'.</p><p><em>Gallery label, August 2004</em></p>
paper unique graphite watercolour pen
Lausanne, from the West
support: 235 × 331 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>Turner made a substantial number of <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/w/watercolour" title="Glossary definition for 'Watercolour'"><span>watercolours</span></a> while at Lausanne in 1841. He had also paused there five years before during a tour of the Alps with his friend H.A.J.Munro of Novar. In the intervening years work had begun on the viaduct known as the Grand-Pont, which spans the valley between the two halves of the town. It may have been this new feature that encouraged Turner to make more distant views from the western side of the town in 1841, and especially from the valley itself. Ruskin commented that it was characteristic of Turner in these sketches to record 'views of things which nobody else would have thought of'.</p>
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adults architecture bridge bridges and viaducts child children cities, towns, villages (non-UK) countries and continents figure hill landscape Lausanne - non-specific people places road Switzerland townscape, distant townscapes / man-made features valley
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