Derived from the study in the 'St. Gothard and Mont Blanc' sketchbook (No.62). The watercolour was exhibited at least three times during Turner's life, always with the title ‘The Passage of Mount St. Gothard, taken from the centre of the Teufels Broch (Devil's Bridge) Switzerland'; it was also probably one of the works to appear in Turner's first exhibition at his own gallery in 1804, from which it would have been purchased by Walter Fawkes, together with another large Swiss view, 'The Great Fall of the Reichenbach, in the valley of Hasle, Switzerland' (Cecil Higgins Art Gallery, Bedford; repr. Royal Academy, British Art, exhibition catalogue, 1934, No. 763, pl.CLXXI).