Artwork Details
6-1/8 x 10-1/8 in. (image) 12 x 17 in. (sheet)
Accession NumberBequest of Kurt F. Pantzer
CopyrightPrints, Drawings, and Photographs
Color PaletteThree years after Turner’s death, the London publisher Henry Graves issued an engraving of Lake of Lucerne from Brunnen. While the engraving plate became worn from numerous reprintings, it preserved many details now lost from the faded watercolor.
This engraving was published again in 1859 in the mammoth The Turner Gallery. Commenting on this plate, Ralph Wornum, the Keeper of the National Gallery, noted Turner’s deviation from the details of the actual landscape, “which, in these days of Alpine photographs, are as accessible, even in all their accuracy, to those that stay at home.” While photography soon replaced topographical watercolors and engravings, it could never capture this Alpine panorama as Turner saw it.
Exhibition Name
Venue
Dates
Journey into Light: Travels with J.M.W. Turner
Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields
July 24, 2020 - December 6, 2020
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