Graphite and watercolour on paper
Fribourg Sketchbook
Fribourg 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>
Baden North
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
architecture
Baden
cities, towns, villages (non-UK)
countries and continents
hill
landscape
natural features (non-UK)
places
river
River Limmat
Switzerland
townscape, distant
townscapes / man-made features
valley
water: inland
<p>This group of three views of Baden date from Turner's 1844 tour. He made several other studies during this visit, even though he had already sketched the spa town many years earlier in 1802. Ruskin had not discovered the subject of these sketches when he published his catalogue of this selection. He was, however, impressed by the subtlety of no.84: 'The ease, power, and value of the pencil lines which trace the river shore, and the quantity of sunlight which is got through the golden colour almost at a dash, by the gradation to the white at the lower shore, renders this one of the most curious drawings in the series'.</p><p><em>Gallery label, September 2004</em></p>
paper unique graphite watercolour
29 March 2019 – 5 October 2019
2019-10-05
29 March 2019 – 23 June 2019
2019-06-23
2019-03-29
York Art Gallery (York, UK)
http://www.york.art.museum
11 July 2019 – 5 October 2019
2019-10-05
2019-07-11
Abbot Hall Art Gallery (Kendal, UK)
http://www.abbothall.org.uk
2019-03-29
Turner, Ruskin and the Storm Cloud of the Modern World
Loan-out
Baden, from the North
support: 229 × 325 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 group of three views of Baden date from Turner's 1844 tour. He made several other studies during this visit, even though he had already sketched the spa town many years earlier in 1802. Ruskin had not discovered the subject of these sketches when he published his catalogue of this selection. He was, however, impressed by the subtlety of no.84: 'The ease, power, and value of the <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> lines which trace the river shore, and the quantity of sunlight which is got through the golden colour almost at a dash, by the gradation to the white at the lower shore, renders this one of the most curious <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>drawings</span></a> in the series'.</p>
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architecture Baden cities, towns, villages (non-UK) countries and continents hill landscape natural features (non-UK) places river River Limmat Switzerland townscape, distant townscapes / man-made features valley water: inland
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