
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00002198View of Lucerne
Provenance
John Ruskin (died 1900), London [according to Armstrong 1902]. Bernard Buchanan MacGeorge (died 1924), Glasgow, by 1901 [Lugt 394; according to Armstrong 1902]. Sold by Hans Calmann, London, to the Art Institute, 1960.
Exhibition history
New York, Wildenstein and Company, "Master Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago," October 17-November 30, 1963, n.p., cat. 128. Santa Barbara, Calif., Santa Barbara Museum of Art, "Painted Papers: Watercolors from Dürer to the Present," March 15-April 15, 1962, cat. 104. New York, Museum of Modern Art, "Turner: Imagination and Reality," 1966, cat. 80, cat. by Lawrence Gowing. Berkeley, Calif., Berkeley University Art Museum, "J.M.W. Turner: Works on Paper from American Collections," August 18-December 19, 1975. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Great Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago: The Harold Joachim Years 1958-1983," July 24-September 30, 1985, pp. 124-125, cat. 55 (ill.), cat. by Martha Tedeschi; traveled to the St. Louis Art Museum, March 10-May 19, 1986. The Art Institute of Chicago, "The Broad Spectrum: Color on Paper, Past and Present," September 12–October 31, 1999, hors. cat.
Publications
Walter Armstrong, Turner (London, 1902), p. 286. Martha Tedeschi, “Phineas Borret’s Farm near Saffron Walden, 1802,” The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 26:1 (2000), pp. 62-63, cat. 26, fig. 22.
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Joseph Mallord William Turner / English, 1775-1851
- Date
- 1840/41
- Medium
- Watercolor, with scraping on white wove paper
- Dimensions
- 23.3 × 29.2 cm (9 3/16 × 11 1/2 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- watercolor
- Place
- England
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Miss Margaret Mower in memory of her mother, Mrs. Elsa Durand Mower
- Accession no.
- 1960.10
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