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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Carriage Sketches of a Rocky Hill and Buildings between Teplitz and Prague 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Carriage Sketches of a Rocky Hill and Buildings between Teplitz and Prague’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 22 Recto:
Carriage Sketches of a Rocky Hill and Buildings between Teplitz and Prague 1835
D30338
Turner Bequest CCCI 22
Pencil on cream wove paper, 159 x 100 mm
Partial Watermark ‘cf’
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘[?Bilin] | Vilinbg’ top centre towards right
Inscribed in red ink by Ruskin ‘22’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCCI – 22’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
These slight and uneven sketches have been rendered with the book turned upside down and continue onto the folio opposite (Tate D30337; Turner Bequest CCCI 21a). They were likely dashed off as Turner travelled by carriage from Teplitz to the Bohemian capital Prague. The landscapes are hilly and mountainous, which suggests Turner may have been travelling through the Central Bohemian Uplands.
The inscriptions ‘[?Bilin] | Vilinbg’ appear at top centre, possibly referring to Bilin (now Bílina), a spa town close to Teplitz.

Alice Rylance-Watson
September 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Carriage Sketches of a Rocky Hill and Buildings between Teplitz and Prague 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-carriage-sketches-of-a-rocky-hill-and-buildings-between-r1186722, accessed 24 September 2024.