- Title:
Lake of Thun, Switzerland
- Additional Title(s):
Lac du Thun
- Part Of:
- Date:
- 1808
- Medium:
- Etching and mezzotint, printed in brown ink First published state on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 11 × 16 1/8 inches (27.9 × 41 cm), Plate: 8 1/4 × 11 3/8 inches (21 × 28.9 cm), Image: 7 1/8 × 10 3/8 inches (18.1 × 26.4 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, lower left: "15 I"; lower right: "Dup I"; inscribed on verso in graphite, upper left: "CW 49"; lower center: "Cotswold Gallery, 1924, ex G.E.Blood"
Collector’s mark: G. E. Blood (Lugt 265c)
Lettered above image: "M"; lower left:"Drawn & Etch'd by J.M.W.Turner Esqr. R.A. P.P. | Engraved by C. Turner | LAKE OF THUN, SWISS. | London, Published June 10, 1808 by C.Turner No. 50 Warren Street Fitzroy Square"; scratched letters, lower left: "Proof"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.8117
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- landscape | lightning | seascape
- Associated Places:
- Lake Thun | Switzerland
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
Note: The Study Room is open by appointment. Please visit the Study Room page on our website for more details. - Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:26140
- Export:
- XML
- IIIF Manifest:
- JSON
Translations - Turner and Printmaking (Yale Center for British Art, 1993-09-29 - 1993-12-05) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
Turner and the Sublime (British Museum, 1981-05-15 - 1981-09-20) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
Turner and the Sublime (Yale Center for British Art, 1981-02-11 - 1981-04-19) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
Turner and the Sublime (Art Gallery of Ontario, 1980-11-01 - 1981-01-04) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
Eric M. Lee, Translations : Turner and printmaking, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1993, p. 15, no. 18, NJ18 .T85 L44 1993 (YCBA) [YCBA]