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Lake Geneva, with the Dent d’Oche, from above Lausanne

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Date

1841

Description

An example of Ruskin's occasionally idiosyncratic (and provocative) judgement can be found in his comments on this watercolour, which he thought was 'Out and out the worst sketch in the whole series; disgracefully careless and clumsy, but too beautiful in subject to be left out. Interesting also in its noticing of the long cypress-like lines of reflection, cast down so unaccountably from the crags. I am nearly certain Turner made the sketch on account of the curious echo which these reflections give to the cypresses'.
Gallery label, August 2004
Medium: Graphite, watercolour and pen on paper
Credit line: 'Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856'

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Location

Dent d'Oche, Novel, France

Country

France

Medium

Watercolour