Evening - looking across a distant lake to mountains
Watercolour on paper
11 ½ × 18 ½ inches · 292 × 470 mm
Painted c.1831
Collections
David Croal Thompson (1855-1930);
Walter Henry Jones (1912-1982) acquired from the above;
Sotheby's, London, 26 March 1975, lot 216, as ‘A Mountain Lake’;
C. Curtis, bought at the above;
Hinderton Trust, Wirral, Cheshire, by 1979;
Hinderton Trust sale, Sotheby's, New York 24 October 1987, lot 27;
Agnew's, London;
Private collection;
Christie's, London, 8 April 1997, lot 66;
Private collection USA, to 2023
Exhibitions
London, Agnew's, 115th Annual Exhibition of Watercolours and Drawings, February-March 1988, no. 73 (as A View from a Height Looking Across a Distant Lake to Mountains Beyond)
Literature
Andrew Wilton, The Life and Work of J.M.W. Turner, Fribourg, 1979, p. 482, no. 1517 (as Looking towards Brunnen and the Seelisberg from Lake Zug)