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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Dresden: View from the Gardens of the Japanese Palace with the Palace Itself, Bridge, Frauenkirche, Hofkirche and Schloss 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Dresden: View from the Gardens of the Japanese Palace with the Palace Itself, Bridge, Frauenkirche, Hofkirche and Schloss’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 2 Verso:
Dresden: View from the Gardens of the Japanese Palace with the Palace Itself, Bridge, Frauenkirche, Hofkirche and Schloss 1835
D30299
Turner Bequest CCCI 2 a
Pencil on cream wove paper, 100 x 159 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘3, 4, 3’ centre towards top left; ‘3’ far right centre
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is a view of Dresden, capital of Saxony, taken from the formal gardens of the Japanese Palace. The baroque building, which can be seen at left, was constructed from 1717 to store the imperial collection of Japanese porcelain.1 Beyond the palace is the Frauenkirche at centre, and over the Augustus Bridge the Hofkirche, once church of the royal court of Saxony and now Dresden Cathedral. Turner has inscribed the numbers ‘3 4, 3’ over the bays of the Japanese Palace and ‘3’ by one of the towers of the Hofkirche.
For more sketches of Dresden see Tate D30296–D30308, D30896–D30900, D31013, D31024–D31042; Turner Bequest CCCI 1–7, CCCVI 6a–9, 65a, CCCVII 3–12.

Alice Rylance-Watson
September 2015

1
‘Japanisches Palais’, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, accessed 03 September 2015, http://www.skd.museum/en/museums-institutions/japanisches-palais

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Dresden: View from the Gardens of the Japanese Palace with the Palace Itself, Bridge, Frauenkirche, Hofkirche and Schloss 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-view-from-the-gardens-of-the-japanese-palace-with-r1186683, accessed 19 May 2024.