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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Dresden: The Frauenkirche and Details of its Lantern and Towers 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Dresden: The Frauenkirche and Details of its Lantern and Towers’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 1 Recto:
Dresden: The Frauenkirche and Details of its Lantern and Towers 1835
D30296
Turner Bequest CCCI 1
Pencil on cream wove paper, 100 x 159 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Eberferh[...]’ bottom centre (inverted)
Inscribed in red ink by Ruskin ‘1’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCCI–1’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is a sketch of Dresden, the capital of Saxony. Turner shows the baroque Frauenkirche from a vantage point on the Neumarkt in the centre of the city. Details of the church’s lantern and towers are rendered around the sides of the view. At rear Turner has inscribed ‘Eberferh[...]’, which is related to the list of German phrases rendered on the folio opposite (Tate D41211).
For more sketches of Dresden see Tate D30297–D30303, D30896–D30900, D31013, D31024–D31042; Turner Bequest CCCI 1a–7, CCCVI 6a–9, 65a, CCCVII 3–12.

Alice Rylance-Watson
September 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Dresden: The Frauenkirche and Details of its Lantern and Towers 1835 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 2015, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, August 2017, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-dresden-the-frauenkirche-and-details-of-its-lantern-and-r1186680, accessed 19 May 2024.