Object number1864.1.217

Bacharach on the Rhine

Date1832-34

Artist Joseph Mallord William Turner (English, 1775-1851)

CultureEnglish

MediumWatercolor on paper

DimensionsFramed: 15 x 17 in. (38.1 x 43.18 cm)
Sheet: 9 x 10 7/8 in. (22.86 x 27.62 cm)

Credit LineGift of Matthew Vassar

On View

Not on view

Period19th c

Classification(s)

Drawings and Watercolors

SignedNot signed or dated

BibliographyHumanizing Landscapes: Geography, Culture, and the Magoon Collection, (Poughkeepsie: FLLAC, 2000), p.63, repr. 1869 Catalog, #293; 1939 Catalog, p. 47, pl. 45 Phagan, Patricia. “Drawings at Vassar to ‘Illustrate the Loftiest Principles and Refine the Most Delighted Hearts.’” Master Drawings 42, no. 2 (2004): 133–44. http://www.jstor.org/stable/1554650. P. 134ProvenanceCollections: Elias Magoon; John Ruskin

Vassar Exhibitions

Catching Light: European and American Watercolors from the Permanent Collection

Second Sight: Originality, Duplicity, and the Object

Exhibition History"No Incidents but a Ghost and a Storm: European Prints and Drawings of the Romantic Period," Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, 20 September - 15 December 1996;

Poughkeepsie, NY, The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, "Humanizing Landscapes: Geography, Culture and the Magoon Collection" 5 Oct. - 20 Dec. 2000. Cat. no.64, repr. p.63

Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College Poughkeepsie, NY SECOND SIGHT: Originality, Duplicity, and the Object January 14-April 10, 2005;

Poughkeepsie, NY, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, "Catching Light: European and American Watercolors from the Permanent Collection," May 8- July 26, 2009.

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