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Creator:
Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851
Title:
Tell's Chapel, Lake Lucerne
Former Title(s):
Lake of Lucerne
Date:
1841
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor, gouache and scraping out on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 8 7/8 x 11 1/4 inches (22.5 x 28.6 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:

Inscribed in graphite, verso, lower right: "5241"

Watermark: J. Whatman | Turkey Mill | 1840

Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1975.4.1419
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
boats | Grand Tour | lake | landscape | mountains | rocks (landforms)
Associated Places:
Europe | Lucerne, Lake | Schweiz | Switzerland
Access:
Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:5459
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Sir Geoffrey Agnew, Yale's 1700 Mellon Pictures, The Times (London), , April 28, 1977, p. 9, Times Digital Archive [ORBIS]

Theresa Fairbanks-Harris, Papermaking and the art of watercolor in eighteenth-century Britain, Paul Sandby and the Whatman Paper Mill , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2006, pp. 18, 19, fig. 15, NJ18.Sa56 A15 V5 2006 (YCBA) [YCBA]

Andrew Wilton, The life and work of J.M.W. Turner, Academy Editions, London, 1979, pp. 477-8, No. 1480, NJ18 T85 +W577 OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]


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