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Lake of Thun (from the Liber Studiorum) Turner
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Details
- Artist/maker
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Turner (Joseph Mallord William Turner) (1775 - 1851) (designer, etcher)Charles Turner (1773 - 1857) (engraver)
- Object type
- Material and technique
- etching and mezzotint on paper
- Dimensions
- 181 x 263 mm (sheet); 202 x 282 mm (mount)
- Associated people
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Charles Turner (1773 - 1857) (publisher)
- Associated place
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- Europe › Switzerland › Bern › Lake Thun › Lake Thun (subject)
- Inscription
- On the front of the mount:
bottom left, in ink: C.1
bottom right, in ink: 36
just above, in graphite: JM T - [?]
On the back of the mount, left of centre, the Ruskin School's stamp
- Provenance
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Presented by John Ruskin to the Ruskin Drawing School (University of Oxford), 1875; transferred from the Ruskin Drawing School to the Ashmolean Museum, c.1949.
- No. of items
- 1
- Accession no.
- WA.RS.RUD.166
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References in which this object is cited include:
References
Ruskin, John, The Ruskin Art Collection at Oxford: Catalogue of the Rudimentary Series, in the Arrangement of 1873, ed. Robert Hewison (London: Lion and Unicorn Press, 1984), cat. Rudimentary no. 165, RUD.165
Finberg, Alexander J., The History of Turner's Liber Studiorum: With a New Catalogue Raisonné (London: Ernest Benn, 1924), no. 15.?
Ruskin, John, Instructions in Practice of Elementary Drawing, Arranged with Reference to the First Series of Examples in the Drawings Schools of the University of Oxford (n.p., [1872]), cat. Rudimentary no. 165
Ruskin, John, Instructions in the Preliminary Exercises Arranged for the Lower Drawing-School (London: Smith, Elder, 1872), cat. Rudimentary no. 165
Ruskin, John, Instructions in the Preliminary Exercise Arranged For the Lower Drawing-School (London: Spottiswoode, 1873), cat. Rudimentary no. 165
Ruskin, John, ‘Rudimentary Series 1878’, 1878, Oxford, Oxford University Archives, cat. Rudimentary no. 166
Ruskin, John, ‘The Ruskin Art Collection at Oxford: Catalogues, Notes and Instructions’, Edward T. Cook and Alexander Wedderburn, eds, The Works of John Ruskin: Library Edition, 39 (London: George Allen, 1903-1912), 21, cat. Rudimentary no. 166
Location
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- Western Art Print Room
Position in Ruskin’s Collection
Ruskin's Catalogues
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Ruskin's revision to the Rudimentary series (1878)
165 166.The Lake of Thun: a quite favorite subject of Turner’s. This first sketch of it from Nature used to hang in my mother’s room, and is now placed here in the Standard Series, No.6. It seems as if the Painter had never again passed up or down the lake, fon for he repeated this single idea of it four times, and never gave any other view of it, while his modifications of the original sketch, by fervid imagination, scarcely leave now recognisable the profile of the Niesen on the left, and of the Stock-horn on the right. He always retained the confusion of packages on the shore, by which he had been startled on landing at Neu Haus.
