J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Three Views of Lake Lugano; Including One with Monte San Salvatore 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Three Views of Lake Lugano; Including One with Monte San Salvatore’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 73 Verso:
Three Views of Lake Lugano; Including One with Monte San Salvatore 1819
D14285
Turner Bequest CLXXIV 72 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 111 x 186 mm
Inscribed by the artist in pencil ‘St Salvatore’ top right, and ‘[?Flax] [?Drying]’ bottom left
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This page contains three sketches of Lake Lugano. The precise locations are not conclusively identified, although an inscription by the artist relating to the uppermost drawing indicates the position of the high peak of Monte San Salvatore. This suggests the views have been drawn from the western branch of the lake, near Ponte Tresa.

Nicola Moorby
January 2013

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘Three Views of Lake Lugano; Including One with Monte San Salvatore 1819 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, January 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, August 2013, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-three-views-of-lake-lugano-including-one-with-monte-san-r1142806, accessed 24 April 2024.