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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1830-35 Annual tourist > Northern Germany, the Elbe and Prague ... > Dresden and Saxon Switzerland Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Hohnstein and the Polentz Valley 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Hohnstein and the Polentz Valley’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 45 Recto:
Hohnstein and the Polentz Valley 1835
D30972
Turner Bequest CCCVI 45
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 104 x 170 mm
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘45’ top right and ‘3’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCCVI 45’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is a view of Polenz in Saxon Switzerland, with the medieval Hohnstein Castle overlooking it on a jagged spur at left. For more views of Hohnstein see Tate D30971–D30976; Turner Bequest CCCVI 44a–47.

Alice Rylance-Watson
August 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Hohnstein and the Polentz Valley 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-hohnstein-and-the-polentz-valley-r1186844, accessed 25 April 2024.