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Joseph Mallord William Turner (English, 1775–1851)
Goldau, 1843
Watercolor and pencil, with scratching-out, on paper; 12 x 18 1/2 in. (30.5 x 47 cm)
Private collection
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The boulders in the foreground and the vivid hues of the sky, whose "scarlet" clouds symbolized destruction, according to John Ruskin, allude to the landslide that devastated the Swiss village of Goldau in 1806. This watercolor is one of seven that Ruskin and his father commissioned from Turner between 1842 and 1845. Assessing Turner's late Swiss and German watercolors, Ruskin considered this work "on the whole the mightiest drawing of his final time."
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