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View of Bregenz (formerly 'View of Locarno')

Maker

(artist)
1775-1851

Title

Date of Production

1840

Medium

graphite, watercolour, bodycolour, coloured chalks on blue wove paper (the paper is variegated, with fibres dyed blue using indigotin)

Dimensions

Height: 19.1 cm
Width: 27.9 cm

Accession Number

D.1967.WS.96

Mode of Acquisition

William Wycliffe Spooner, bequest, 1967

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords

Label Text

The historic Austrian town of Bregenz, with its ancient churches and monasteries perched dramatically over Lake Constance, provided Turner with a gratifying amount of subject matter. For lake and river scenes he often used sheets of blue paper, leaving areas of sky and water untouched, as in this expressive colour sketch, executed with economy of line to the point of abstraction in the foreground. Accents of pink and white gouache perfectly describe the bright sunlight cast over rooftops.

Notes

In late summer of 1840 Turner returned to the Continent, landing in Rotterdam and traveling up the Rhine. He stopped briefly at Bregenz before continuing on to Venice.

Provenance

Fine Art Society (London); William Wycliffe Spooner, Ilkley (1882-1967); Spooner Bequest 1967

Exhibition History

Drawn to Blue: Artists' use of Blue Paper, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 04/10/2024-26/01/2025

Paths to Fame - Turner's Watercolour Landscapes, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 30/10/2008-25/01/2009

Paths to Fame - Turner's Watercolour Landscapes, Wordsworth Trust, Grasmere, England, 16/07/2008-12/10/2008 ...More

British Watercolours from the Spooner Collection, Huntington Museum and Art Gallery, Los Angeles, 12/02/2005-15/05/2005

British Watercolours from the Spooner Collection, Huntington Museum of Art, Los Angeles, 12/02/2005-15/05/2005; Wordsworth Trust, Grasmere, 18/07/2005-23/10/2005; Hermitage Rooms, Somerset House, London, 16/11/2005-12/02/2006

J.M.W. Turner, 'That Greatest of Landscape Painters' -
Watercolours from London Museums, Tulsa, USA, 08/02/1998-12/04/1998

Abroad in Austria: traveller's impressions from five centuries, Austria Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Vienna, 1997

Turner in Germany, London & England, 23/05/1995-10/09/1995

John Varley: A Bicentenary Exhibition, Hackney, London, 18/08/1978-08/10/1978

English Landscape Drawing and Watercolours, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 01/05/1977-01/06/1977

The William Spooner Collection and Bequest, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 1974

English Watercolours: The Spooner Collection and Bequest, City Art Gallery, Bristol, 11/05/1973-02/06/1973

The William Spooner Collection and Bequest, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 01/04/1968-01/07/1968

English Water-Colours: Memorial Exhibition to William Wycliffe
Spooner, Harrogate, 1968

Early English watercolours, City Art Gallery, Leeds, 08/10/1958-23/11/1958 ...Less

Literature

Paths to Fame: Turner Watercolours from The Courtauld Gallery, Wordsworth Trust; Courtauld Gallery, 2008-2009
no. 17
ill. on p. 97

The Spooner Collection of British Watercolours, Courtauld Institute Galleries; Huntington Library; Wordsworth Trust, 2005-06
cat. no. 55
ill. on p. 183

J.M.W. Turner, 'That Greatest of Landscape Painters' - Watercolours from London Museums, Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1998 ...More

J.M.W. Turner, "that greatest of landscape painters": watercolors from London museums, Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1998
no. 31
ill. on p. 135

Abroad in Austria: Travellers' Impressions from Five Centuries, Austrian Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Vienna, 1997
ill. on p. 181

William Turner in Deutschland / Turner in Germany, Tate Gallery, London; Kunsthalle Mannheim; Hamburger Kunsthalle, 1995-1996 Munich 1995
no. 82
ill. on p. 155 (English version)

Wilton, Andrew, The life and work of J.M.W. Turner, London, 1979
no. 1350

English Landscape Drawing and Watercolours, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 1977
cat. no. 59

The William Spooner Collection and Bequest, Courtauld Gallery, London, 1974
cat. no. 40

English Watercolours: The Spooner Collection and Bequest, City Art Gallery, Bristol, 1973
cat. no. 59

English Water-Colours: Memorial Exhibition to William Wycliffe Spooner, Harrogate, 1968
cat. no. 52

The William Spooner Collection and Bequest, Courtauld Gallery, London, 1968
cat. no. 55

Early English watercolours, City Art Gallery, Leeds, 1958
cat. no. 119 ...Less

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