J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Switzerland 1802 > Lake Thun Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner ?Lake Thun 1802

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?Lake Thun’ 1802
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 51 Recto:
?Lake Thun 1802
D04708
Turner Bequest LXXVI 51
Pencil on white laid paper, 156 x 201 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘51’ bottom right, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘LXXVI 51’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
For Thun and Turner’s drawings of it, see folio 6 of this sketchbook (D04654).
Finberg notes that this leaf was ‘stuck down tight on cartridge’, thus obscuring the drawing on the back. This was revealed when the book was later rebound (D40783).

David Blayney Brown
March 2004

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘?Lake Thun 1802 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 2004, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2012, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-lake-thun-r1133183, accessed 19 April 2024.