By Kind Permission of a Private Collection
By Kind Permission of a Private Collection
Presumably Turner 's The fall of an Avalanche in the Grisons, oil on canvas, Turner's Gallery 1810, Turner Bequest, Tate Britain ( Wilton P109).
J.M.W. Turner 1775-1851
Fall of an Avalanche in the Grisons c.1808-10
Oil on canvas, 90x120cm
Exhibitions: Turner's Gallery 1810 (14); Tate Gallery 1931 (56); Amsterdam 1939 (158); Amsterdam, Berne, Paris (repr.) Brussels, Liege (16), Venice (repr.) and Rome (repr.) (18) 1947-8; Rotterdam 1955 (50); Tate Gallery 1959 (346); Detroit and Philadelphia 1968 (116); Paris 1972 (261, repr.); RA 1974-5 (87); Hamburg 1976 (16, colour, pl.3); Hague 1978-9 (vii, repr. in colour); Munich 1979-80 (219, repr.); Paris 1983-4 (27, repr. in colour); Birmingham 1984
Further Comments: Although it is uncertain whether Turner had visited the Grisons during his Swiss Tour of 1802, we know that he knew of an avalanche that had occurred there in 1808
Collection: Tate Gallery, London