Joseph Mallord William Turner

Lago Maggiore

c.1828

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Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Medium
Graphite and watercolour on paper
Dimensions
Support: 311 x 585 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D25155
Turner Bequest CCLXIII 33

Display caption

The setting shown in this richly coloured unfinished watercolour has so far not been identified. It may relate to other studies that Turner made in Northern
Italy and near the Mediterranean coast. The distant mountains could well be
those around the lakes of Garda or
Como, which Turner had visited in 1819.

 

The central area of the foreground of this represents the preliminary structures of a town or city. This gives some idea of how Turner steadily built up the details of his finished watercolours.

 

Gallery label, August 2004

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