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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Teplitz from the Königshöhe, with the Erzgebirge in the Distance 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Teplitz from the Königshöhe, with the Erzgebirge in the Distance’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 13 Recto:
Teplitz from the Königshöhe, with the Erzgebirge in the Distance 1835
D30320
Turner Bequest CCCI 13
Pencil on cream wove paper, 100 x 159 mm
Inscribed in red ink by Ruskin ‘13’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCCI – 13’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is a sketch of the Bohemian town of Teplitz (now modern day Teplice in the Czech Republic). It was taken from the Königshöhe, the heights overlooking the town, and shows some of the buildings on the Schlossplatz at left. Beyond are the Ore Mountains, a range known as the Erzgebirge in German, which form a natural border between Saxony and Bohemia.
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, ‘Teplitz from the Königshöhe, with the Erzgebirge in the Distance 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-teplitz-from-the-konigshohe-with-the-erzgebirge-in-the-r1186704, accessed 19 May 2024.