The Lake of Zug

Etcher Etched by John Ruskin British

Engraver Mezzotint by Thomas Goff Lupton British

After Joseph Mallord William Turner British

1888

Not on view

When John Ruskin owned Turner's watercolor of the Lake of Zug (now at the Metropolitan Museum), he etched the subject in outline around 1856, with mezzotint then added by Lupton. The resulting print was used to illustrate Ruskin's Modern Painters, 1888, vol. V, pl. 87 (and Works, vol. VII, p. 439, pl. 87).

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Title: The Lake of Zug
Etcher: Etched by John Ruskin (British, London 1819–1900 Brantwood, Cumbria)
Engraver: Mezzotint by Thomas Goff Lupton (British, London 1791–1873 London)
Artist: After Joseph Mallord William Turner (British, London 1775–1851 London)
Date: 1888
Medium: Etching and mezzotint; proof
Dimensions: Image: 4 15/16 × 7 5/8 in. (12.5 × 19.4 cm)
Plate: 8 3/16 × 11 5/16 in. (20.8 × 28.7 cm)
Sheet: 11 5/8 × 17 5/16 in. (29.6 × 43.9 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit Line: H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, 1929
Object Number: 29.107.177
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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