Graphite, chalk, 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
Works on loan
Joseph Mallord William Turner
Turner Bequest
St Gothard and Mont Blanc Sketchbook
Collection
Turner owned by Tate
Catalogued Turner works on paper
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Mer de Glace Looking up to Aiguille de Tacul
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Aiguille de Tacul
Alps
countries and continents
France
glacier
landscape
Mer de Glace
mountain
natural features (non-UK)
places
paper unique graphite chalk watercolour gouache
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
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
6 July 2024 – 15 January 2028
2028-01-15
6 July 2024 – 1 September 2024
2024-09-01
2024-07-06
Grimaldi Forum (Monaco, Monaco)
30 September 2024 – 7 May 2025
2025-05-07
2024-09-30
Museum of Art Pudong (Shanghai, China)
21 June 2025 – 5 October 2025
2025-10-05
2025-06-21
Queensland Art Gallery of Modern Art (Brisbane, Australia)
2024-07-06
Turner's Sublime Legacy
Tate partnerships & programmes
The Mer de Glace, Looking up to the Aiguille de Tacul
support: 315 × 468 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
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Catalogue entry
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Aiguille de Tacul Alps countries and continents France glacier landscape Mer de Glace mountain natural features (non-UK) places
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