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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Switzerland 1802 > St Gothard and Mont Blanc Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner A Ravine: ?Gorge of the River Reuss or in the St Gotthard Pass 1802

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Ravine: ?Gorge of the River Reuss or in the St Gotthard Pass’ 1802
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 51 Recto:
A Ravine: ?Gorge of the River Reuss or in the St Gotthard Pass 1802
D04643
Turner Bequest LXXV 51
Pencil, black and white chalks on white wove paper prepared with grey wash, 315 x 473 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘51’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘LXXV 51’ bottom left descending vertically
Blind-stamped with the Turner Bequest monogram bottom right
This close-up sketch of rocks descending to a gorge or river seems similar to the coloured study from this sketchbook, D04627; Turner Bequest LXXV 35. The location is perhaps by the River Reuss. For Turner’s visit to the St Gotthard Pass and Reuss gorge in 1802 see Introduction to the sketchbook and notes to D04628; Turner Bequest LXXV 36.
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David Blayney Brown
October 2011

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘A Ravine: ?Gorge of the River Reuss or in the St Gotthard Pass 1802 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, October 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-a-ravine-gorge-of-the-river-reuss-or-in-the-st-gotthard-pass-r1146508, accessed 26 April 2024.