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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Dresden: The Bridge, Frauenkirche, Kreuzkirche, Hofkirche and Schloss from the Northern Shore of the Elbe just downstream of the Bridge, with Boats and Figures 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Dresden: The Bridge, Frauenkirche, Kreuzkirche, Hofkirche and Schloss from the Northern Shore of the Elbe just downstream of the Bridge, with Boats and Figures’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 9 Recto
Dresden: The Bridge, Frauenkirche, Kreuzkirche, Hofkirche and Schloss from the Northern Shore of the Elbe just downstream of the Bridge, with Boats and Figures 1835
D31038
Turner Bequest CCCVII 10
Pencil on cream laid paper, 89 x 162 mm
Watermarked with a beehive surrounded by garlands and bees
Inscribed in red ink by Ruskin ‘10’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCCVII–10’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is a prospect of Dresden taken from the northern shore of the river Elbe, downstream from the Augustus Bridge. The foreground quayside is stacked with cargo and figures stand close to moored vessels. In the middle distance at left the dome of the Frauenkirche can be seen, with the Kreuzkirche, Cathedral and Castle.
For more sketches of the city 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, ‘Dresden: The Bridge, Frauenkirche, Kreuzkirche, Hofkirche and Schloss from the Northern Shore of the Elbe just downstream of the Bridge, with Boats and Figures 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-dresden-the-bridge-frauenkirche-kreuzkirche-hofkirche-and-r1186911, accessed 16 April 2024.