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View of Lucerne
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| Artist / Maker | Joseph Mallord William Turner |
|---|---|
| Date | 1840/41 |
| Culture / Origin | England |
| Medium | Watercolor, with scraping on white wove paper |
| Dimensions | 23.3 × 29.2 cm (9 3/16 × 11 1/2 in.) |
| Department | Prints and Drawings |
| Type | Drawing and Watercolor |
About the Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner, the supreme landscape painter of the romantic era, had the exceptional good fortune to be the son of a Covent Garden barber and wigmaker who thoroughly supported his aspirations to paint pictures. As an adolescent, Turner colored engravings for the print sellers and apprenticed with architectural draftsman Thomas Malton (1726-1801). Although he entered the Royal Academy Schools in 1789, Turner's substantive artistic training came from his numerous self-conducted topographical drawing tours of the British Isles in… Full biography →
Provenance & Source
Image & data: Art Institute of Chicago, CC0 / Public Domain.
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