
In Tate Britain
Prints and Drawings Room
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Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Thomas Girtin 1775–1802 - Medium
- Watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- Support: 156 × 249 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
- Reference
- D36568
Turner Bequest CCCLXXVI 9
Display caption
This watercolour depicts the town of Angera, situated on the eastern shore of Lake Maggiore in northern Italy. It is one of many works made in collaboration by Thomas Girtin and JMW Turner in the London home of Dr Thomas Monro during the 1790s. Monro ran an evening academy, or ‘Manufactory’, for young artists, who were paid to copy studies by established figures such as John Robert Cozens, who probably made the original drawing this picture is based on. Generally, as in this instance, Girtin drew in the outlines of the composition while Turner supplied the washes and colour.
Gallery label, April 2007
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