Currently not on view
Falls at Schaffhausen,
ca. 1841
Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851; born London, England; died Chelsea, England
x1982-48
Information
Title
Falls at Schaffhausen
Dates
ca. 1841
Medium
Watercolor heightened with white chalk over graphite with touches of pen and reddish brown ink and scraping
Dimensions
22.6 x 28.8 cm (8 7/8 x 11 5/16 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, gift of Mrs. Millard Meiss and the Surdna Fund
Object Number
x1982-48
Place Depicted
Europe, Switzerland, Schaffhausen, Rhine Falls
Inscription
in graphite, lower right corner: 3
Culture
Type
Materials
Techniques
Subject
Christie's, London;
From “Important English Drawings and Watercolors” Christie’s catalogue:
“Provenance: A.H. Bishop, and by descent to his grand-children, the present owners. Unrecorded view from the Schaffhausen series (Wilton 1460-9), perhaps a set of leaves from the Fribourg, Lausanne and Geneva Sketchbook (T.B. CCCXXXII), (Confirmed by Andrew Wilton) Group provisionally assigned to ca. 1841 on basis of dated sheet (Wilton 1460). [Princeton] sheet is closest in composition to Wilton 1461 (Pantzer Collection, Indianapolis; reproduced in ex. cat. “J.M.W. Turner: Works on Paper from American Collections” (1975)”. (See reference Bib. 4754);
- Important English drawings and watercolours: 1982 Nov. 16, (London: Christie, Manson & Woods, 1982). , no. 157
- "Acquisitions of the Art Museum 1982", Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 42, no. 1 (1983): p. 50-70., p. 64
- Marjorie Munsterberg, "J. M. W. Turner's Falls at Schaffhausen," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 44, no. 2 (1985): p. 24-31., p. 24, fig. 1
- Princeton University Art Museum: Handbook of the Collection (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007), illustrated p. 343
- Princeton University Art Museum: Handbook of the Collections (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Art Museum, 2013), p. 396
