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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Mountain Pass; ?St Gotthard. Building to the Right 1802

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Mountain Pass; ?St Gotthard. Building to the Right’ 1802
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 37 Recto:
A Mountain Pass; ?St Gotthard. Building to the Right 1802
D04694
Turner Bequest LXXVI 37
Pencil on white laid paper, 201 x 156 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘37’ bottom left (inverted)
Stamped in black ‘LXXVI 37’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This, drawn with the sketchbook inverted and a continuation of the drawing on folio 36 verso (D04693), is probably another of its various drawings of the Reuss valley; for these see note to folio 30 (D04686). It was probably made on the approaches to Wassen.
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David Blayney Brown
March 2004

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘A Mountain Pass; ?St Gotthard. Building to the Right 1802 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 2004, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2012, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-a-mountain-pass-st-gotthard-building-to-the-right-r1133169, accessed 20 April 2024.