Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00005945Castle on Height near Geneva
Inscriptions
Inscribed verso, lower right, in graphite: "62"
Provenance
Thomas Greenwood, Esq., until 1874; sold, Christie’s, Mar. 13, 1875, lot 244, to Thomas Agnew [annotated sale catalog]. C. Hutton [Spink stock card]. Sold, Spink, London, Apr. 8, 1974 [according to Wilton 1979]. Sold, Sotheby’s, London, July 13, 1989, lot 148, to Dorothy Braude Edinburg, Brookline, MA; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2013.
Exhibition history
Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection," June 3–July 30, 2006, p. 77, cat. 48 (ill.).
Publications
Andrew Wilton, J.M.W. Turner: His Art and Life (New York, 1979), cat. 1454. Suzanne Folds McCullagh (ed.), Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection, exh. cat. (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 2006), p. 77, cat. 48 (ill.).
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
- 1836
- Medium
- Watercolor, with scraping, over graphite, on off-white wove paper, edge mounted to cream card
- Dimensions
- 16 × 23.4 cm (6 5/16 × 9 1/4 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- prints and drawing
- Place
- England
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
- Accession no.
- 2013.1038
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