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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Switzerland 1802 > St Gothard and Mont Blanc Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Lake Thun: the Landing Stage at Neuhaus, the Niesen in the Distance 1802

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Lake Thun: the Landing Stage at Neuhaus, the Niesen in the Distance’ 1802
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 46 Recto:
Lake Thun: the Landing Stage at Neuhaus, the Niesen in the Distance 1802
D04638
Turner Bequest LXXV 46
Pencil and black and white chalks on white wove paper prepared with grey wash, 315 x 473 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘46’ and blue ink ‘33’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘LXXV 46’ bottom left, descending vertically
Blind-stamped with the Turner Bequest monogram bottom right
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

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Lake Thun: the Landing Stage at Neuhaus, the Niesen in the Distance 1802 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, October 2011, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, August 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-lake-thun-the-landing-stage-at-neuhaus-the-niesen-in-the-r1146505, accessed 25 April 2024.