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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1830-35 Annual tourist > Northern Germany, the Elbe and Prague ... > Dresden, Teplitz and Prague Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Dresden: View up the Elbe; Separate Detail of a Spire 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Dresden: View up the Elbe; Separate Detail of a Spire’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 4 Recto:
Dresden: View up the Elbe; Separate Detail of a Spire 1835
D30302
Turner Bequest CCCI 4
Pencil on cream wove paper, 100 x 159 mm
Partial Watermark ‘cf’
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘2 H[...]’, ‘[...]’ centre right towards top right; ‘[...]’ bottom right
Inscribed in red ink by Ruskin ‘4’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCCI–4’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Here Turner has recorded a prospect of the Saxon capital Dresden from the banks of the River Elbe. In the distance at centre is the Augustus Bridge, the Frauenkirche and Hofkirche. Turner has labelled the Frauenkirche and Hofkirche with two illegible inscriptions; there is a separate detail of what appears to be the Frauenkirche’s lantern at top right.
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

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Dresden: View up the Elbe; Separate Detail of a Spire 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-up-the-elbe-separate-detail-of-a-spire-r1186686, accessed 19 May 2024.