Graphite, watercolour and chalk on paper
Thun, Interlaken, Lauterbrunnen and Grindelwald Sketchbook
Switzerland
Tate Collection
Works with images
Joseph Mallord William Turner
Turner Bequest
Thun, Interlaken, Lauterbrunnen and Grindelwald Sketchbook
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>
Thun
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
architecture
cities, towns, villages (non-UK)
countries and continents
lake
places
Switzerland
Thun
townscape, distant
townscapes / man-made features
water: inland
<p>This is an example of the large, soft-backed 'roll' sketchbooks that Turner favoured so much during the 1840s. Their name derives from the ability to roll them up and keep them in a pocket. Turner would take several on tour, along with smaller books, to be used for fleeting observations and thumb-nail sketches. The larger books were for more carefully selected compositions, which might well be used as the basis of a finished work. Drawing was often undoubtedly undertaken on the spot, and colouring too on occasion, although while on tour Turner also worked up studies later in his lodgings.</p><p><em>Gallery label, September 2004</em></p>
paper unique graphite watercolour chalk
Thun
support: 223 × 328 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>This is an example of the large, soft-backed 'roll' sketchbooks that Turner favoured so much during the 1840s. Their name derives from the ability to roll them up and keep them in a pocket. Turner would take several on tour, along with smaller books, to be used for fleeting observations and thumb-nail sketches. The larger books were for more carefully selected <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>compositions</span></a>, which might well be used as the basis of a finished work. <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/d/drawing" title="Glossary definition for 'Drawing'"><span>Drawing</span></a> was often undoubtedly undertaken on the spot, and colouring too on occasion, although while on tour Turner also worked up studies later in his lodgings.</p>
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architecture cities, towns, villages (non-UK) countries and continents lake places Switzerland Thun townscape, distant townscapes / man-made features water: inland
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