The Falls of the Rhine at Schaffhausen is a 1788 landscape painting by the French-born artist Philip James de Loutherbourg.

[1] It shows a scene on the Rhine Falls in Neuhausen am Rheinfall, near Schaffhausen, in Switzerland.

Loutherbourg visited the country that year where he produced this work in the emerging style of Romanticism.

After settling in London the artist became known for stage designs for David Garrick at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane while also producing landscape paintings.

[2] Loutherberg intended this painting as a rejoinder to those who had criticised his landscapes as too full of invention and not being direct studies of nature.