Joseph Mallord William Turner
English, 1775–1851
Brunnen from the Lake of Lucerne
1845
Medium | watercolor and gouache on paper |
Dimensions | Overall: 11 7/16 x 18 3/4 in. (29 x 47.7 cm) |
Object Number | 1955.1865 |
Acquisition | Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955 |
Status | Off View |
Image Caption
Joseph Mallord William Turner, Brunnen from the Lake of Lucerne, 1845, watercolor and gouache on paper. Clark Art Institute, 1955.1865
Select Bibliography
Haverkamp-Begemann, Egbert, Standish D. Lawder, and Charles W. Talbot, Jr. Drawings from the Clark Art Institute: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Robert Sterling Clark Collection of European and American Drawings, Sixteenth Through Nineteenth Centuries, at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown. 2 volumes. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1964.
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Exhibit Thirty-three: Drawings of the 17th, 18th and 19th Centuries. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1966.
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. A Selection of Drawings from the Collection of the Clark Art Institute. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: The Clark, 1974.
Brooke, David S. Master Drawings: Robert Sterling Clark as a Collector. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1995.
E. T. Cook and A. Wedderburn.. The Works of John Ruskin, 13 (rprt. of Catalogue of the Turner Sketches in the National Gallery, I, London, 1857).. London.. 1904.
John Ruskin.. Notes...on his Drawings by the Late J. M. W. Turner, R.A., Exhibited at the Fine Art Society's Galleries..., March, 1878, "Epilogue," Printings 3-6.. London.. 1878..
Brown, Eric. "Studio-Talk." The Studio 49 (1910): 220–46.
John Russell.. Turner in Switzerland.. Dubendorf: De Clivo Press.. 1976..
Wilton, Andrew. J. M. W. Turner. Fribourg: Office du Livre. 1978.
Ian Warrell. Through Switzerland with Turner: Ruskin's First Selection from the Turner Bequest. (Exh. Feb. 8-May 7, 1995).. London: Tate Gallery. 1995.
Kern, Steven, et al. The Clark: Selections from the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1996.
Hamilton, James. Turner: The Late Seascapes. Exhibition catalogue. New Haven: Yale University Press; Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 2003.
Provenance
John Ruskin; H. A. J. Munro, Novar; Abraham Haworth ({?}, according to Talmage sale catalogue); John Yates; J. F. Talmage (sale New York, February 20, 1913, no. 20; to J. William Clark, according to note on Frick Art Reference Library Photograph); J. William Clark (to Margaretta C. Clark {?}); Margaretta C. Clark (sale New York, Parke-Bernet, October 23, 1941, no. 30 {under title of Lake Landscape with Figures (Lake Como); as formerly in possession of Scott and Fowles}); Scott and Fowles, New York (bought by Robert Sterling Clark, 1941).