- Title:
Lake Geneva and Mount Blanc
- Former Title(s):
Lake of Geneva, with Mount Blanc from the Lake
- Additional Title(s):
Lake of Geneva with Mont Blanc, from the lake
- Date:
- 1802 to 1805
- Medium:
- Watercolor, pen and black ink, pen and brown ink and scraping out on slightly textured, cream wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 28 7/8 x 44 5/8 inches (73.3 x 113.3 cm) and Frame: 35 5/8 x 50 5/8 x 1 3/8 inches (90.5 x 128.6 x 3.5 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Scratched inscription lower left: "JMWT"; in black watercolor, lower right: "Arrete"
watermark: 1804 (letters)
Signed in pen and brown ink, lower left: "JMW Turner. RA."; not dated
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.6301
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- boats | cattle | Grand Tour | lake | landscape | marine art | mountains | sheep | swimmers | trees
- Associated Places:
- France | Geneva | Geneva, Lake | Mont Blanc
- Access:
- Accessible by request in the Study Room [Request]
Note: The Study Room is open to Yale ID holders by appointment. Please visit the Study Room page on our website for more details. - Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:5504
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Presences of Nature - British Landscape 1780-1830 (Yale Center for British Art, 1982-10 - 1983-02)
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Ruskin - Past: Present: Future (Yale Center for British Art, 2000-01-20 - 2000-02-27)
Magnificent Switzerland (Museum of Art and History, Geneva, 1991-11-12 - 1992-02-02)
Magnificent Switzerland (Fondazione Thyssen-Bornemisza, 1991-08-01 - 1991-10-31)
Gabriele Crepaldi, Turner, Prestel, Munich ; London, 2011, pp. 46-47, NJ18.T85 C75 2011 (YCBA)
John Gage, J.M.W. Turner: "a wonderful range of mind", Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, p. 43, fig. 64, NJ18 T85 G36 (LC) (YCBA)
Eric Shanes, The life and masterworks of J.M.W. Turner, Parkstone Press, New York, 2008, p. 102, NJ18 T85 S441 2008 + OVERSIZE (YCBA)
Eric Shanes, Turner, the great watercolours , Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2000, p. 87, cat. no. 19, NJ18 T85 S446 2000 (YCBA)
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