Fishing Boats with Hucksters Bargaining for Fish

1. Bought from the artist by John Naylor (died 1889), Leighton Hall, Welshpool, Montgomeryshire, 1851 [based on inventory of Naylor’s collection begun in October 1856 citied in Butlin and Joll 1984, p. 145; see also Thornbury 1862]; by descent to Mrs. Naylor, presumably his widow; sold through Dyer and Sons to Thomas Agnew and Sons, London, 1910 [this and the following information according to Butlin and Joll 1984]; sold to Mrs. W. W. Kimball (died 1921), Chicago, 1910; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1922.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• London, British Institution, 1838, cat. 134.
• Liverpool Town Hall, Pictures Exhibited at a Soiree Given by John Buck Lloyd Esq., Mayor of Liverpool, at the Town Hall on Saturday Evening September 23, 1854, 1854, cat. 40.
• The Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June 1-November 1, 1933, cat. 205.
• The Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June 1-November 1, 1934, cat. 153.

• Literary Gazette (February 10, 1838).
• “Fine Arts: British Institution,” Athenaeum 538 (February 17, 1838), p. 130.
• Gustav Friedrich Waagen, Treasures of Art in Great Britain vol. 3 (London, 1854), p. 251.
• Walter Thornbury, The Life of J. M. W. Turner, R. A. vol. 2 (London, 1862), p. 400, 2nd edition, London, 1877, pp. 582, 597.
• Charles Francis Bell, A List of the Works Contributed to Public Exhibitions by J. M. W. Turner, R. A. (London, 1901), p. 135, no. 211.
• Walter Armstrong, Turner (London and New York, 1902), p. 229.
• William Lionel Wyllie, J. M. W. Turner, R. A. (London, 1905), p. 172, no. 211.
• The Art Institute of Chicago Bulletin 14 (1920), pp. 71 (ill.), 77.
• The Art Institute of Chicago, Handbook of Sculpture, Architecture, Paintings, and Drawings vol. 2 (Chicago, 1920), p. 60, no. 769.
• Marguerite B. Williams, “Valuable Collection of Paintings Added to Chicago’s Art Treasures,” America Today–Fort Dearborn Magazine (1924), p. 10 (ill.).
• The Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide of the Paintings in the Permanent Collection (Chicago, 1925), pp. 36, 155, no. 769.
• The Art Institute of Chicago, A Brief Guide to the Collections (Chicago, 1956), p. 32.

Valley of Aosta: Snowstorm, Avalanche, and Thunderstorm

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View of Lucerne

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Sunset and Moonrise

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The Frontispiece to Liber Studiorum

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View in the St. Gotthard Pass, Switzerland

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Basle, plate 5 from Liber Studiorum

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Aesacus and Hesperie, plate 66 from Liber Studiorum

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Castle on Height near Geneva

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