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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner View of Hills from Teplitz 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘View of Hills from Teplitz’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 11 Recto:
View of Hills from Teplitz 1835
D30316
Turner Bequest CCCI 11
Pencil on cream wove paper, 100 x 159 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Tep looking towards Prag’ bottom centre
Inscribed in red ink by Ruskin ‘11’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCCI – 11’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Here Turner depicts the hills around Teplitz, modern day Teplice, in the Czech Republic. The central peak resembles those formations found in the Central Bohemian Uplands. The artist has inscribed the drawing ‘Tep looking towards Prag’, i.e. ‘Teplitz looking towards Prague’.
For more sketches of Teplitz see Tate D30315–D30335; Turner Bequest CCCI 10a–20a.

Alice Rylance-Watson
September 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘View of Hills from Teplitz 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-view-of-hills-from-teplitz-r1186700, accessed 19 May 2024.