About the Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner
Born: London, 23 April 1775
Died: Chelsea, 19 December 1851
Nationality: English
Collection
Private Collection
Similar Subjects by Other Artists
Karl Blechen, Constructing Devil's Bridge, 1833 (Neue Pinokothek, Munich)
Vasily Surikov, Crossing of the Alps by Suvorov's Army, 1899 (Russian Museum, St Petersburg). More than 2,000 Russians died in a battle against Napoleon in the St Gotthard's Pass in Switzerland in 1799.
Images
St Gotthard's Pass, Switzerland. Monument to the 2,000 Russians who died in a Napoleonic battle here in 1799.
Devil's Bridge, St Gotthard's Pass, Switzerland. Above is a car tunnel and new bridge over the Schöllenen Gorge and Reuss River.
Turner probably enjoyed a night or two here, at the St Gotthard's Pass hospice.