Graphite, watercolour and pen on paper
Fribourg Sketchbook
Fribourg Sketchbook
Switzerland
Tate Collection
Works with images
Joseph Mallord William Turner
Turner Bequest
Collection
Turner owned by Tate
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Fribourg Convent de la Maigrauge in Valley River Sarine South
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
architecture
bridge
bridges and viaducts
cities, towns, villages (non-UK)
convent
countries and continents
Fribourg, Convent de la Maigrauge
Fribourg, Convent de Montorge
gorge
landscape
natural features (non-UK)
places
religious
river
River Sarine
Switzerland
townscape, distant
townscapes / man-made features
water: inland
<p>One of the sketchbooks used on Turner's 1841 journey to Switzerland contains about twenty studies of Fribourg, mostly recorded in pencil, with the details heightened in red colour. This previously unidentified view is taken from the bottom of the valley of the River Sarine, which runs through and below the main part of Fribourg. Ruskin explained that the sketch was a valuable lesson in composition: 'If you hide the block timbers above the river with your hand, the fortress immediately becomes thin and flimsy; but when the lines of the timber are put in, as you can seen through them everywhere, the fortress walls become instantly firm and solid by the contrast.'</p><p><em>Gallery label, September 2004</em></p>
paper unique graphite watercolour pen
15 June 2007 – 14 October 2007
2007-10-14
15 June 2007 – 14 October 2006
2006-10-14
2007-06-15
Museum für Kunst und Geschichte Freiburg (Freiburg, Switzerland)
2007-06-15
The Image of Fribourg
Loan-out
Fribourg: The Convent de la Maigrauge, in the Valley of the River Sarine, from the South
support: 235 × 335 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>One of the sketchbooks used on Turner's 1841 journey to Switzerland contains about twenty studies of Fribourg, mostly recorded in <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/g/graphite" title="Glossary definition for 'Graphite'"><span>pencil</span></a>, with the details heightened in red colour. This previously unidentified view is taken from the bottom of the valley of the River Sarine, which runs through and below the main part of Fribourg. Ruskin explained that the sketch was a valuable lesson in <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/c/composition" title="Glossary definition for 'Composition'"><span>composition</span></a>: 'If you hide the block timbers above the river with your hand, the fortress immediately becomes thin and flimsy; but when the lines of the timber are put in, as you can seen through them everywhere, the fortress walls become instantly firm and solid by the contrast.'</p>
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architecture bridge bridges and viaducts cities, towns, villages (non-UK) convent countries and continents Fribourg, Convent de la Maigrauge Fribourg, Convent de Montorge gorge landscape natural features (non-UK) places religious river River Sarine Switzerland townscape, distant townscapes / man-made features water: inland
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