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Joseph Mallord William Turner

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

Description

Maker

Joseph Mallord William Turner (English, 1775-1851)

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

Techniques

  • Watercolor applied with brush with scraped highlights

Materials

white heightening, wash technique

Supports

  • Light brown paper

Dimensions

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

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Anonymous gift

Object Number

71.153.2

Type

  • Drawings and Watercolors

Projects & Publications

Publications

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

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Selection II: British Watercolors and Drawings from the Museum's Collection

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Selected Works

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Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Luminous Landscapes
British Watercolors from the Museum's Collection
May 27, 2005 – Aug 14, 2005

Label copy

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
British Watercolors and Drawings from the Museum's Collection
Apr 13, 1972 – May 14, 1972

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Joseph Mallord William Turner (English, 1775-1851)
Rainbow: A View on the Rhine from Dunkholder Vinyard, of Ostersprey and Feltzen below Bosnart, ca. 1819
Watercolor applied with brush with scraped highlights
18.7 x 29.2 cm (7 3/8 x 11 1/2 inches)
Anonymous gift 71.153.2

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