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Joseph Mallord William Turner

Flüelen, from the Lake of Lucerne

1845
watercolor with gouache and scratch-away

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The art critic John Ruskin described the series of watercolors to which this work belongs as "sunset drawings," referring to to the fact that they were made at the end of Turner's career rather than their subject matter.

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