Joseph Mallord William Turner

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

1835

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Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of
Dresden and Saxon Switzerland Sketchbook
Medium
Graphite on paper
Dimensions
Support: 104 x 170 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D30997
Turner Bequest CCCVI 57 a

Catalogue entry

Here Turner shows the Elbe valley in Saxony, looking towards Lilienstein, Pfaffenstein andKönigstein Mountains. The artist drew this prospect on the Bastei rocks, close to a viewing platform seen through the trees at centre left. See also Tate D30981–D31001; Turner Bequest CCCVI 49a–59a.

Alice Rylance-Watson
August 2015

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View by appointment D30989
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