Graphite, watercolour and pen on paper
Switzerland
Tate Collection
Works with images
Joseph Mallord William Turner
Turner Bequest
Collection
Turner owned by Tate
<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/joseph-mallord-william-turner-558" aria-label="More by Joseph Mallord William Turner" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Joseph Mallord William Turner</a>
Küssnacht Lake Lucerne Sample
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
adults
architecture
astronomy
cities, towns, villages (non-UK)
cloud
countries and continents
features
figure
group
groups
Küssnacht
lake
Lake Lucerne
landscape
mountain
natural features (non-UK)
people
places
sun
Switzerland
tower
townscape, distant
townscapes / man-made features
water: inland
weather
wooded
<p>This view of Kussnacht is a study for the watercolour now in Manchester City Art Gallery, which was commissioned by H.A.J.Munro of Novar in 1843. Like much of the area around Lake Lucerne, the history of Kussnacht is steeped in the legends associated with William Tell and his part in the liberation of Switzerland from Austrian rule. By the time of Turner's visit in 1842, Schiller and Rossini had already turned Tell's life into the stuff of theatre and opera. Although there were already doubts about some details of the Tell myth, Turner dutifully recorded the chapel just outside the village, which stands close to the spot where Tell is supposed to have killed the oppressive Gessler.</p><p><em>Gallery label, August 2004</em></p>
paper unique graphite watercolour pen
26 May 2003 – 8 December 2003
2003-12-08
26 May 2003
2003-05-26
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2003-05-26
British Watercolours: Turner and his Contemporaries around 1840
Collection based display
8 June 2007 – 3 February 2008
2008-02-03
8 June 2007 – 3 February 2008
2008-02-03
2007-06-08
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2007-06-08
Master and Magician; Late Work
Collection based display
10 September 2014 – 20 September 2015
2015-09-20
10 September 2014 – 25 January 2015
2015-01-25
2014-09-10
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2014-09-10
Late Turner: Painting Set Free
Exhibition
6 July 2019 – 2 May 2021
2021-05-02
6 July 2019 – 13 October 2019
2019-10-13
2019-07-06
Kunstmuseum (Luzern, Switzerland)
http://www.kunstmuseumluzern.ch
8 November 2019 – 26 January 2020
2020-01-26
2019-11-08
LWL-Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte Westfälisches (Munster, Germany)
http://landesmuseum.lwl.org
20 February 2020 – 7 September 2020
2020-09-07
2020-02-20
Frist Center for the Visual Arts (Nashville, USA)
15 October 2020 – 2 May 2021
2021-05-02
2020-10-15
Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec (Québec, Canada)
http://www.mnba.qc.ca
2019-07-06
The Sea and the Alps: Turner's Quest for the Sublime
Tate partnerships & programmes
Küssnacht, Lake of Lucerne: Sample Study
support: 228 × 292 mm
Accepted by the nation as part of the <a href="/search?gid=999999781" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Turner Bequest</a> 1856
<p>This view of Kussnacht is a study for the <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/w/watercolour" title="Glossary definition for 'Watercolour'"><span>watercolour</span></a> now in Manchester City Art Gallery, which was commissioned by H.A.J.Munro of Novar in 1843. Like much of the area around Lake Lucerne, the history of Kussnacht is steeped in the legends associated with William Tell and his part in the liberation of Switzerland from Austrian rule. By the time of Turner's visit in 1842, Schiller and Rossini had already turned Tell's life into the stuff of theatre and opera. Although there were already doubts about some details of the Tell myth, Turner dutifully recorded the chapel just outside the village, which stands close to the spot where Tell is supposed to have killed the oppressive Gessler.</p>
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adults architecture astronomy cities, towns, villages (non-UK) cloud countries and continents features figure group groups Küssnacht lake Lake Lucerne landscape mountain natural features (non-UK) people places sun Switzerland tower townscape, distant townscapes / man-made features water: inland weather wooded
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