Joseph Mallord William Turner

Lake Thun from near Neuhaus

1802

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Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of
Lake Thun Sketchbook
Medium
Graphite on paper
Dimensions
Support: 156 × 201 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D04718
Turner Bequest LXXVI 61

Catalogue entry

For Neuhaus, Turner’s landing place at the far end of Lake Thun, see folio 60 of this sketchbook. (D04717). He landed in stormy conditions and here clouds partly obscure the Niesen, seen on the left from near the landing stage or just offshore. Andrew Wilton associates both sketches with Turner’s watercolour made for Walter Fawkes (on the London art market, 2007), but folio 60 is the most closely related.1
1
Wilton 1979, p.342 no.373; Sotheby’s sale, 4 July 2007 (lot 12).
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Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘588’ top left, descending vertically

David Blayney Brown
October 2009

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