View of Lucerne

CC0 Public Domain Designation

Prints and Drawings

1840/41

Joseph Mallord William Turner
English, 1775-1851

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Joseph Mallord William Turner
Title: View of Lucerne
Place: England (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1840–1841
Medium: Watercolor, with scraping on white wove paper
Dimensions: 23.3 × 29.2 cm (9 3/16 × 11 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Miss Margaret Mower in memory of her mother, Mrs. Elsa Durand Mower
Reference Number: 1960.10
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Walter Armstrong, Turner (London, 1902), p. 286.
Martha Tedeschi, “Phineas Borret’s Farm near Saffron Walden, 1802,” The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 26:1 (2000), pp. 62-63, cat. 26, fig. 22.

New York, Wildenstein and Company, “Master Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago,” October 17-November 30, 1963, n.p., cat. 128.
Santa Barbara, Calif., Santa Barbara Museum of Art, “Painted Papers: Watercolors from Dürer to the Present,” March 15-April 15, 1962, cat. 104.
New York, Museum of Modern Art, “Turner: Imagination and Reality,” 1966, cat. 80, cat. by Lawrence Gowing.
Berkeley, Calif., Berkeley University Art Museum, “J.M.W. Turner: Works on Paper from American Collections,” August 18-December 19, 1975.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Great Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago: The Harold Joachim Years 1958-1983,” July 24-September 30, 1985, pp. 124-125, cat. 55 (ill.), cat. by Martha Tedeschi; traveled to the St. Louis Art Museum, March 10-May 19, 1986.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “The Broad Spectrum: Color on Paper, Past and Present,” September 12–October 31, 1999, hors. cat.

John Ruskin (died 1900), London [according to Armstrong 1902]. Bernard Buchanan MacGeorge (died 1924), Glasgow, by 1901 [Lugt 394; according to Armstrong 1902]. Sold by Hans Calmann, London, to the Art Institute, 1960.

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