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>
Storm in St Gotthard Pass First Bridge above Altdorf Sample
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Alps
architecture
bridge
bridges and viaducts
countries and continents
landscape
mountain
natural features (non-UK)
places
St Gotthard Pass
storm
Switzerland
townscape, distant
townscapes / man-made features
weather
wooded
<p>During 1845 Turner was at work on the more developed watercolour of this view, now in the Whitworth Art Gallery in Manchester. Ruskin had commissioned it 'for the sake of the pines'. But in the finished work Turner 'cut all the pines down, by way of jest, and left only the bared red ground under them'. Although Ruskin honoured his side of the bargain by acquiring the completed drawing, he was dissatisfied and eventually arranged to exchange it for the view of Fluelen (based on no.37), which had been commissioned by H.A.J.Munro of Novar, another important collector of Turner's Swiss subjects.</p><p><em>Gallery label, September 2004</em></p>
paper unique graphite watercolour pen
16 January 2015 – 3 July 2016
2016-07-03
16 January 2015
2015-01-16
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2015-01-16
Among the Mountains
Collection based display
6 July 2019 – 2 May 2021
2021-05-02
6 July 2019 – 13 October 2019
2019-10-13
2019-07-06
Kunstmuseum (Luzern, Switzerland)
http://www.kunstmuseumluzern.ch
8 November 2019 – 26 January 2020
2020-01-26
2019-11-08
LWL-Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte Westfälisches (Munster, Germany)
http://landesmuseum.lwl.org
20 February 2020 – 7 September 2020
2020-09-07
2020-02-20
Frist Center for the Visual Arts (Nashville, USA)
15 October 2020 – 2 May 2021
2021-05-02
2020-10-15
Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec (Québec, Canada)
http://www.mnba.qc.ca
2019-07-06
The Sea and the Alps: Turner's Quest for the Sublime
Tate partnerships & programmes
Storm in the St Gotthard Pass. The First Bridge above Altdorf: Sample Study
support: 239 × 297 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>During 1845 Turner was at work on the more developed <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>watercolour</span></a> of this view, now in the Whitworth Art Gallery in Manchester. Ruskin had commissioned it 'for the sake of the pines'. But in the finished work Turner 'cut all the pines down, by way of jest, and left only the bared red ground under them'. Although Ruskin honoured his side of the bargain by acquiring the completed <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>, he was dissatisfied and eventually arranged to exchange it for the view of Fluelen (based on no.37), which had been commissioned by H.A.J.Munro of Novar, another important collector of Turner's Swiss subjects.</p>
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Alps architecture bridge bridges and viaducts countries and continents landscape mountain natural features (non-UK) places St Gotthard Pass storm Switzerland townscape, distant townscapes / man-made features weather wooded
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