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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1830-35 Annual tourist > Northern Germany, the Elbe and Prague ... > Dresden and Saxon Switzerland Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Rocky Landscape near Schandau (Continued in the Sky); Rocks 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Rocky Landscape near Schandau (Continued in the Sky); Rocks’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 42 Verso:
Rocky Landscape near Schandau (Continued in the Sky); Rocks 1835
D30967
Turner Bequest CCCVI 42 a
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 104 x 170 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Here Turner has sketched the mountains near Schandau in Saxon Switzerland. The small sketch in the sky shows the same range of rocks. At bottom right there is a squared-off jotting of some jagged peaks, probably part of the Schrammsteine.

Alice Rylance-Watson
August 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Rocky Landscape near Schandau (Continued in the Sky); Rocks 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-rocky-landscape-near-schandau-continued-in-the-sky-rocks-r1186839, accessed 19 April 2024.