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 ... > Copenhagen to Dresden Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner River Scenery with Boats; Dresden: View along the Brühl Terrace towards the Hofkirche and Bridge 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘River Scenery with Boats; Dresden: View along the Brühl Terrace towards the Hofkirche and Bridge’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 7 Verso
River Scenery with Boats; Dresden: View along the Brühl Terrace towards the Hofkirche and Bridge 1835
D31035
Turner Bequest CCCVII 8 a
Pencil on cream laid paper, 89 x 162 mm
Watermarked with a beehive surrounded by garlands and bees
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Elbe’ top right descending
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Here Turner pictures Dresden and its Cathedral from Brühl Terrace, on the banks of the Elbe. A separate jotting shows boats on the Elbe.
For more sketches of Dresden see Tate D30296–D30303, D30896–D30900, D31024–D31042; Turner Bequest CCCI 1–7, CCCVI 6a–9, CCCVII 3–12.

Alice Rylance-Watson
May 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘River Scenery with Boats; Dresden: View along the Brühl Terrace towards the Hofkirche and Bridge 1835 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 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-river-scenery-with-boats-dresden-view-along-the-bruhl-r1186908, accessed 12 May 2024.