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The Aiguillette, Valley of Cluses Turner
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Details
- Artist/maker
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Turner (Joseph Mallord William Turner) (1775 - 1851)
- Object type
- drawing
- Material and technique
- watercolour and black chalk over graphite, with scratching out, on paper prepared with a grey wash
- Dimensions
- 477 x 322 mm
- Associated place
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- Europe › France › Rhône-Alpes › Cluses › Cluses (subject)
- Provenance
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John Ruskin; recorded in the Ruskin Drawing School (University of Oxford), in 1871; Arthur Severn; purchased by the Whitworth Art Gallery from Thomas Agnew & Sons, 1925.
- No. of items
- 1
- Accession no.
- MANWG.D.56.1925
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Subject terms allocated by curators:
Subjects
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References in which this object is cited include:
References
Wilton, Andrew, The Life and Work of J.M.W. Turner (London: Academy Editions, 1979), no. 357
London: Colnaghi's, 1967, English Drawings: A Loan Exhibition from the Whitworth Art Gallery ([London: Colnaghi's], [1967]), no. 21
Ruskin, John, Catalogue of the Educational Series (London: Smith, Elder, 1871), cat. Educational no. 138
[Nugent, Charles], From View to Vision: British Watercolours from Sandby to Turner in the Whitworth Art Gallery (Manchester: Whitworth Art Gallery, 1993), no. 32, p. 125, p. 28
Nugent, Charles, British Watercolours in the Whitworth Art Gallery, University of Manchester: A Summary Catalogue of Drawings and Watercolours by Artists Born Before 1880 (London: Philip Wilson and the Whitworth Art Gallery, 2003)
Ruskin, John, ‘Notes By Mr. Ruskin ... on His Drawings by the Late J. M. W. Turner, R. A., [and] on His Own Handiwork Illustrative of Turner’, Edward T. Cook and Alexander Wedderburn, eds, The Works of John Ruskin: Library Edition, 39 (London: George Allen, 1903-1912), 13, no. 11 = XIII.419-420
Location
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- The Whitworth Art Gallery, University of Manchester
