Joseph Mallord William Turner

Lake Thun: the Landing Stage at Neuhaus, the Niesen in the Distance

1802

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Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of
St Gothard and Mont Blanc Sketchbook
Medium
Chalk and graphite on paper
Dimensions
Support: 315 × 473 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D04638
Turner Bequest LXXV 46

Catalogue entry

Turner’s label for this drawing, also numbered ‘33’, reads ‘Le Lac de Thun’. For Turner’s excursion on Lake Thun in 1802 see mainly drawings in the Lake Thun sketchbook, for example Tate D04717; Turner Bequest LXXVI 60, a view of the landing stage at Neuhaus towards the Niesen. This drawing, and another from this sketchbook (D04636; Turner Bequest LXXV 44), were also made nearby.
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David Blayney Brown
October 2011

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