'The Lake of Brienz', Joseph Mallord William Turner

Artwork details

Artist

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775‑1851)

Title

The Lake of Brienz

From Rhine, Strassburg and Oxford Sketchbook

Turner Bequest LXXVII

Date 1802

MediumGraphite on paper

Dimensionssupport: 154 x 240 mm

Collection

Tate

Acquisition Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

Reference

D04773

Turner Bequest LXXVII 33

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Catalogue entry

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851

Folio 33 Recto:

The Lake of Brienz 1802

D04773
Turner Bequest LXXVII 33

Pencil on white wove paper, 154 x 240 mm
Inscribed in an unknown hand in pencil ‘33’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘LXXVII – 33’ bottom right

Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

References

This is probably a view of Lake Brienz towards Ringgenberg Castle, similar to that on folio 46 verso of this sketchbook (D04791). Combined, these two views may have been the basis of a chalk elaboration in the Grenoble series (Tate D04543; Turner Bequest LXXIV 50), which in turn was translated into a colour study, about 1809 (Tate D04896; Turner Bequest LXXX C). This last served for the finished watercolour made around the same time for Thomas Wright (Bowood Collection).1

David Blayney Brown
March 2004

Andrew Wilton, The Life and Work of J.M.W. Turner, Fribourg 1979, p.344 no.391.

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This catalogue entry is part of: David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, December 2012.