Joseph Mallord William TurnerLake Lucerne: the Bay of Uri from above Brunnen c.1844

This scumbled and brilliant paint surface is, at first, difficult to decipher. A small house beneath a cliff is discernible in the lower left corner, while mountains loom on the right hand side of the canvas. It is thought to have been begun a year or two after Turner’s visit to Switzerland in 1842, and has been connected to a watercolour of the same subject completed that year.