'View up the Elbe to Lilienstein, Pfaffenstein and Königstein, from the Bastei, with the Viewing Platform in the Centre Left', Joseph Mallord William Turner | Tate

Artwork details

Artist

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775‑1851)

Title

View up the Elbe to Lilienstein, Pfaffenstein and Königstein, from the Bastei, with the Viewing Platform in the Centre Left

From Dresden and Saxon Switzerland Sketchbook

Turner Bequest CCCVI

Date 1835

MediumGraphite on paper

Dimensionssupport: 170 x 104 mm

Collection

Tate

Acquisition Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

Reference

D30997

Turner Bequest CCCVI 57 a

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Turner's sketchbooks

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features (7,253)

platform (30)

nature (37,443)

landscape (24,053)

hill (10,038)

rocky (2,750)

wooded (8,571)

water: inland (11,431)

river (7,933)

places (23,425)

countries and continents (12,032)

Germany (2,367)

natural features (non-UK) (4,159)

Bastei (24)

Lilienstein (31)

River Elbe (61)

Context

Joseph Mallord William Turner

Geographic location

Germany

Sketchbooks

Sketchbooks from the 1830s

Dresden and Saxon Switzerland Sketchbook

Tate Collection

Gifts and bequests

Turner Bequest