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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Switzerland 1802 > St Gothard and Mont Blanc Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner St Martin, Looking North 1802

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘St Martin, Looking North’ 1802
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
St Martin, Looking North 1802
D04601
Turner Bequest LXXV 9
Pencil, black chalk, watercolour and white gouache on white wove paper prepared with grey wash, 318 x 472 mm
Stamped in black ‘LXXV 9’ bottom right
Blind-stamped with the Turner Bequest monogram towards bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
John Ruskin’s title for this drawing was retained by Finberg and is kept here. For St Martin in this sketchbook see notes to D04602; Turner Bequest LXXV 10. In this drawing, Turner shows figures and a coach on the road by the River Arve.
Verso:
Laid down

David Blayney Brown
October 2011

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘St Martin, Looking North 1802 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, October 2011, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, August 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-st-martin-looking-north-r1146513, accessed 21 November 2024.