Prints and Drawings Room
View by appointment- Artist
- Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
- Medium
- Watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- Support: 229 × 293 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
- Reference
- D33504
Turner Bequest CCCXXXII 34
Display caption
Turner toured Switzerland every year from 1841 to 1844, each trip lasting an average of three months. He was fascinated by the dramatic landscape of the mountains, the ethereal effects of atmosphere and light, and by picturesque Swiss towns and shimmering Alpine lakes. The majority of watercolours in the Turner Bequest from the 1840s are devoted to Swiss subjects.
Pilatus is one of the best-known mountains on Lake Lucerne. Turner uses the mists surrounding its peak to picturesque effect, producing a poetic, hazy essay in colour and light, that is one of his most evocative studies of Alpine sunset.
Gallery label, September 2004
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