Graphite, watercolour and gouache on paper
St Gothard and Mont Blanc Sketchbook
St Gothard and Mont Blanc Sketchbook
Switzerland 1802
Switzerland 1802
France
Tate Collection
Works with images
Joseph Mallord William Turner
Turner Bequest
St Gothard and Mont Blanc Sketchbook
Collection
Turner owned by Tate
Catalogued Turner works on paper
<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>
Chamonix and Mont Blanc Slopes Montenvers
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
adults
Alps
countries and continents
figure
France
landscape
Mont Blanc
Montenvers
mountain
natural features (non-UK)
people
pine
places
rocky
Val de Chamonix
valley
wooded
<p>It is hard to imagine how exciting it  must have been for Turner, who had  never previously travelled abroad,  finally to cross to the Continent. He was twenty-seven, and already a successful artist and Royal Academician. He had been on many sketching tours within Great Britain but because of the Napoleonic Wars had been unable to travel further afield. In 1802 however,  the Treaty of Amiens temporarily halted hostilities, enabling British tourists to  flock across the Channel. Turner eagerly grasped the opportunity to witness the amazing spectacle of the Swiss Alps.</p><p><em>Gallery label, September 2002</em></p>
paper unique graphite watercolour gouache
12 August 2002 – 11 May 2003
2003-05-11
12 August 2002 – 11 May 2003
2003-05-11
2002-08-12
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2002-08-12
Turner Watercolours
Collection based display
30 May 2008 – 7 September 2008
2008-09-07
30 May 2008 – 7 September 2008
2008-09-07
2008-05-30
Galerie Stihl Waiblingen (Waiblingen, Germany)
2008-05-30
Turner "Liber Studiorum"
Loan-out
11 September 2019 – 31 May 2020
2020-05-31
11 September 2019 – 16 February 2020
2020-02-16
2019-09-11
Musée du Luxembourg (Paris, France)
29 February 2020 – 31 May 2020
2020-05-31
2020-02-29
External
2019-09-11
Gainsborough to Turner: The Golden Age of English Painting
Loan-out
Chamonix and Mont Blanc, from the Slopes of the Montenvers
support: 320 × 475 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>
It is hard to imagine how exciting it <br/>
must have been for Turner, who had <br/>
never previously travelled abroad, <br/>
finally to cross to the Continent. He was twenty-seven, and already a successful artist and Royal Academician. He had been on many sketching tours within Great Britain but because of the Napoleonic Wars had been unable to travel further afield. In 1802 however, <br/>
the Treaty of Amiens temporarily halted hostilities, enabling British tourists to <br/>
flock across the Channel. Turner eagerly grasped the opportunity to witness the amazing spectacle of the Swiss Alps.   </p>
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adults Alps countries and continents figure France landscape Mont Blanc Montenvers mountain natural features (non-UK) people pine places rocky Val de Chamonix valley wooded
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