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Joseph Mallord William Turner

Rainbow: A View on the Rhine from Dunkholder Vinyard, of Ostersprey and Feltzen below Bosnart, ca. 1819

Description

Maker

  • Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775-1851, English

Title

Rainbow: A View on the Rhine from Dunkholder Vinyard, of Ostersprey and Feltzen below Bosnart

Year

ca. 1819

Medium

Watercolor applied with brush with scraped highlights

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • white heightening,
  • wash technique

Supports

  • Light brown paper

Dimensions

18.7 x 29.2 cm (7 3/8 x 11 1/2 inches)

Type

  • Works on Paper,
  • Drawings and Watercolors

Credit

Anonymous gift

Object Number

71.153.2

Projects & Publications

Publications

Manual / Issue 4

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RISD STEAM/Discovery Through Juxtaposition

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Selected Works

A Handbook of the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design

Selection II

British Watercolors and Drawings from the Museum's Collection

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Luminous Landscapes

May 27 - August 14, 2005

This work is one of three designs developed for a book commission for engraved views of the Rhine, but another similar project was published before this one, ending the need for Turner to finish his group. In this work, Turner brilliantly portrays a rainbow lightening a saturated sky at a wide bend in the Rhine. Windblown figures in the foreground accentuate the stormy atmosphere. Deep blue and pale greens dominate the sheet, which was then worked into with fine brush to portray details. Turner created highlights in the foreground by scraping away the watercolor, and the rainbow was created by wiping pigment from the sky, probably with a cloth, to reveal the brightness of the paper. The long title (with Boppard misspelled as Bosnart) accompanied the work on the only occasion that it was shown during Turner’s life (1823).

Selection II

April 13 - May 14, 1972

Use

The images on this website can enable discovery and collaboration and support new scholarship, and we encourage their use. This object is in the public domain (CC0 1.0). This object is Rainbow: A View on the Rhine from Dunkholder Vinyard, of Ostersprey and Feltzen below Bosnart with the accession number of 71.153.2. To request high-resolution files or new photography, please send an email to imagerequest@risd.edu and include your name and the object's accession number.

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