Prints and Drawings Room
View by appointment- Artist
- Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
- Medium
- Watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- Support: 235 × 325 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
- Reference
- D36182
Turner Bequest CCCLXIV 324
Display caption
In 1842 Turner allowed a group of his patrons to choose which of his preliminary sketches they wanted him to rework
as finished watercolours. He repeated
this practice in subsequent years,
focusing increasingly on subjects
bordering Lake Lucerne. This work
is one of the 'sample studies' he
presented to the collectors in 1843.
A finished watercolour was commissioned by H A J Munro of Novar (an important patron of Turner's later work). In it Turner gave fuller reign to the swirling vortex of moonlight, so that the individual features seem to float in its light. This watercolour
is now in the British Museum.
Gallery label, August 2004
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