J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Switzerland 1802 > Grenoble Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner The Hospice at the Summit of the Great St Bernard Pass, Mont Vélan in the Distance 1802

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Hospice at the Summit of the Great St Bernard Pass, Mont Vélan in the Distance’ 1802
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
The Hospice at the Summit of the Great St Bernard Pass, Mont Vélan in the Distance 1802
D04554
Turner Bequest LXXIV 61
Pencil on greyish-buff laid paper, 198 x 266 mm
Stamped in black ‘LXXIV 61’ bottom right
Blind-stamped with the Turner Bequest monogram bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Finberg listed this as one of 22 leaves from this sketchbook found ‘in a parcel labelled by Mr. Ruskin – “M. 16. Leaves of S. 229. Laid down.” They have been mounted on cartridge by Mr. Ruskin.’ Evidently, Ruskin isolated these drawings because they were pencil outlines, without the additions of chalk or gouache found elsewhere in the sketchbook. This quick but vivid sketch is the first draft or on-the-spot version of the more finished drawing from the same sketchbook (D04548; Turner Bequest LXXIV 55; see catalogue notes for the subject).
Verso:
Laid down

David Blayney Brown
September 2011

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘The Hospice at the Summit of the Great St Bernard Pass, Mont Vélan in the Distance 1802 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 2011, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, August 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-the-hospice-at-the-summit-of-the-great-st-bernard-pass-mont-r1146419, accessed 23 April 2024.