The Source of the Arveron
The Source of the Arveron
Artist
Creation date
January 1, 1816
Materials
mezzotint over etching
Dimensions
7 3/8 x 10 1/2 in (image)
8 7/16 x 11 7/16 in (plate)
11 5/8 x 17 1/8 in (sheet)
Credit line
Bequest of Kurt F. Pantzer
Accession number
80.766.3
Collection
Not Currently On View
"In Turner's ‘Source of Arveron' he has, with his usual unerring perception of the main point in any matter, fastened on this means of relating the glacier's history. The glacier cannot explain its own motion; and ordinary observers saw in it only its rigidity; but Turner saw that the wonderful things was its nonrigidity. Other ice is fixed, only this ice stirs. All the banks are staggering beneath its waves, crumbling and withered as by a blast of a perpetual storm."
-John Ruskin, 1860
Turner sale, March 1873.; Miss Smith of Boughty Ferry, sold Sotheby, London, July 25, 1949 (Lot 36).; Wright.; Kurt Pantzer, Indianapolis.
