Turner 's Oberwesel, watercolour, 1840, Private Collection ( Wilton 1380); engraved by J.T. Willmore for William Finden 's Royal Gallery of British Art, 1842 ( Rawlinson 660).
Although both subsequently engraved, Lake Nemi and Oberwesel were two watercolours of large size (345 x 520 mm) neither exhibited nor connected with any particular project. Both were acquired by the collector Benjamin Godfrey Windus, at whose house in Tottenham, Ruskin would have seen and studied them.
J.M.W. Turner 1775-1851
Oberwesel 1840
Watercolour and body-colour with scraping out, 34.5x53cm
Exhibitions: RA 1974 (583)
Engraving:
Engraved by J.T. Willmore, 1842
Steel engraving, 22.2x34.3cm
Engraved for Finden's 'Royal Gallery of British Art, 1842
Provenance: B.G. Windus; Oldham; Whitaker; John Leigh Clare, sale Christie's 28/3/1868 (100), bt Agnew; Wm Quilter, sale Christie's 9/4/1875 (248), bt in; Wm Quilter, sale Christie 18/5/1889 (102), bt Vokins; Andrew G. Kurtz, sale Christie 11/5/1891 (195), bt McLean; E. Steinkopff, sale Christie's 24/5/1935 (54), bt. Mitchell; anon, sale Christie's 6/6/1972 (145), bt Leger
Collection: Private Collection, Switzerland
For a reproduction of this artistic work, please consult: Wilton, Andrew, J.M.W. Turner: His Art and Life, (Poplar Books, 1979), p.234