Graphite, watercolour and pen on paper
Switzerland
Tate Collection
Works with images
Joseph Mallord William Turner
Turner Bequest
Collection
Turner owned by Tate
<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/joseph-mallord-william-turner-558" aria-label="More by Joseph Mallord William Turner" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Joseph Mallord William Turner</a>
Pass St Gotthard near Faido Sample
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
countries and continents
gorge
landscape
natural features (non-UK)
places
river
rocky
St Gotthard Pass
Switzerland
water: inland
<p>Ruskin wrote extensively about this view in 'Modern Painters', and even set out to discover the site for himself in 1845, just three years after Turner's own revelatory visit to the St Gotthard Pass. In the catalogue of this selection of watercolours Ruskin stated that this 'was a favourite sketch of Turner's. He realised it for me in 1843, with his fullest power; and the resultant drawing is, I believe, the greatest work he produced in the last period of his art'. The finished watercolour is now in America.</p><p><em>Gallery label, September 2004</em></p>
paper unique graphite watercolour pen
26 January 2019 – 15 September 2019
2019-09-15
26 January 2019 – 22 April 2019
2019-04-22
2019-01-26
Two Temple Place (London, UK)
29 May 2019 – 15 September 2019
2019-09-15
2019-05-29
Millennium Gallery (Sheffield, UK)
http://www.sheffieldgalleries.org.uk
2019-01-26
John Ruskin: Seeing Beauty, Inspiring Minds
Loan-out
The Pass of St Gotthard, near Faido: Sample Study
support: 229 × 290 mm
Accepted by the nation as part of the <a href="/search?gid=999999781" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Turner Bequest</a> 1856
<p>Ruskin wrote extensively about this view in 'Modern Painters', and even set out to discover the site for himself in 1845, just three years after Turner's own revelatory visit to the St Gotthard Pass. In the catalogue of this selection of <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/w/watercolour" title="Glossary definition for 'Watercolour'"><span>watercolours</span></a> Ruskin stated that this 'was a favourite sketch of Turner's. He realised it for me in 1843, with his fullest power; and the resultant <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/d/drawing" title="Glossary definition for 'Drawing'"><span>drawing</span></a> is, I believe, the greatest work he produced in the last period of his art'. The finished watercolour is now in America.</p>
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countries and continents gorge landscape natural features (non-UK) places river rocky St Gotthard Pass Switzerland water: inland
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