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 St Rémi, Great St Bernard Pass 1802

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘St Rémi, Great St Bernard Pass’ 1802
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
St Rémi, Great St Bernard Pass 1802
D04578
Turner Bequest LXXIV 85
Pencil on greyish-buff laid paper, 215 x 284 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘St Remy’ towards bottom right
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘85’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘LXXIV 85’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Finberg listed this leaf as ‘part of a parcel labelled by Mr. Ruskin – “R. 277. Grenoble series. Inferior drawings.”’ The drawings in this group are pencil outlines, lacking the additions of chalk or gouache found elsewhere in the sketchbook. In 1802 Turner passed through the village of St Rémi as he approached the last, steepest stage of his climb up the St Bernard Pass towards the Hospice at the summit. David Hill notes his stop to sketch.1
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Hill 1992, p.84.
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David Blayney Brown
September 2011

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘St Rémi, Great St Bernard Pass 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-st-remi-great-st-bernard-pass-r1146443, accessed 12 August 2025.