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The Lauerzersee with the Mythens Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851) around late 1840s Great Britain Watercolour and pen and red ink on paper with scraping out 36.8 x 54 cm Museum no. 980-1900 Bequeathed by Henry Vaughan, 1900 At the end of his life Turner was working on watercolours based on drawings made on his 1843 tour of Switzerland. These represent his fullest expression of the atmospheric and luminary qualities of landscape. John Ruskin praised his ability to represent ‘the far higher and deeper truth of mental vision, rather than that of the physical facts’

The Lauerzersee with the Mythens, Joseph Mallord William Turner

The Lauerzersee with the Mythens
Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851)
around late 1840s
Great Britain
Watercolour and pen and red ink on paper with scraping out
36.8 x 54 cm
Museum number. 980-1900
Bequeathed by Henry Vaughan, 1900

At the end of his life Turner was working on watercolours based on drawings made on his 1843 tour of Switzerland. These represent his fullest expression of the atmospheric and luminary qualities of landscape. John Ruskin praised his ability to represent 'the far higher and deeper truth of mental vision, rather than that of the physical facts'.