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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Pirna: The Fortress of Sonnenstein 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Pirna: The Fortress of Sonnenstein’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 23 Recto:
Pirna: The Fortress of Sonnenstein 1835
D30928
Turner Bequest CCCVI 23
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 104 x 170 mm
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘23’ top right and ‘3’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCCVI 23’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is a sketch of the Schloss Sonnenstein, a medieval fortress located in Pirna, Saxony. For more sketches of Pirna see Tate D30919–D30928, D30930, D31011; Turner Bequest CCCVI 18a–23, 24, 64a.

Alice Rylance-Watson
August 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Pirna: The Fortress of Sonnenstein 1835 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, August 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-pirna-the-fortress-of-sonnenstein-r1186800, accessed 25 April 2024.