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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Teplitz: View down the Schönau with the Erzgebirge in the Distance and the Schlossberg (Right) 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Teplitz: View down the Schönau with the Erzgebirge in the Distance and the Schlossberg (Right)’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 14 Recto:
Teplitz: View down the Schönau with the Erzgebirge in the Distance and the Schlossberg (Right) 1835
D30322
Turner Bequest CCCI 14
Pencil on cream wove paper, 100 x 159 mm
Inscribed in red ink by Ruskin ‘14’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCCI – 14’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Here Turner depicts the Bohemian spa town of Teplitz (now Teplice in the Czech Republic) surrounded by the hillside. The hill at right crowned by a medieval fortification is the Schlossberg.
For more sketches of the town see Tate D30315–D30335; Turner Bequest CCCI 10a–20a.

Alice Rylance-Watson
September 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Teplitz: View down the Schönau with the Erzgebirge in the Distance and the Schlossberg (Right) 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-view-down-the-schonau-with-the-erzgebirge-in-the-r1186706, accessed 19 May 2024.