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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Switzerland 1802 > Rhine, Strassburg and Oxford Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner The Lake of Brienz 1802

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Lake of Brienz’ 1802
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
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

1
Andrew Wilton, The Life and Work of J.M.W. Turner, Fribourg 1979, p.344 no.391.

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘The Lake of Brienz 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-the-lake-of-brienz-r1133476, accessed 25 April 2024.