Joseph Mallord William Turner

The Upper Glacier, Grindelwald

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
D04676
Turner Bequest LXXVI 21

Catalogue entry

For Turner’s views of Grindelwald in this sketchbook, see especially folio 19 (D04674), and for the village and Turner’s work there, the Rhine, Strassburg, Oxford sketchbook, especially folio 29 (Tate D047680; Turner Bequest LXXVII 29).
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David Blayney Brown
March 2004

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