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 Buildings Seen between Berlin and Dresden; Dresden: View down the Elbe towards the Palais Brühl, Hofkirche and Bridge 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Buildings Seen between Berlin and Dresden; Dresden: View down the Elbe towards the Palais Brühl, Hofkirche and Bridge’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 11 Recto
Buildings Seen between Berlin and Dresden; Dresden: View down the Elbe towards the Palais Brühl, Hofkirche and Bridge 1835
D31042
Turner Bequest CCCVII 12
Pencil on cream laid paper, 162 x 89 mm
Watermark double X mark
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Branburg’ top right towards centre
Inscribed in red ink by Ruskin ‘12’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCCVII–12’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The view at rear, produced with the sketchbook turned upside down, is of Dresden. Taken from the Elbe, the view incorporates the Hofkirche (Cathedral), Augustus Bridge and Palais Brühl, a now demolished palace built for the Polish-Saxon statesman Heinrich von Brühl.
The remaining sketches were probably taken on the carriage journey from Dresden to Berlin. ‘Branburg’ may refer to Brandenburg an der Havel, a town near Berlin. The central building with four onion domes may be Moritzburg Castle northwest of Dresden.1

Alice Rylance-Watson
May 2015

1
Moritzburg Castle, Schloss Moritzburg, accessed 15 June 2015, http://www.schloss-moritzburg.de/en/moritzburg_castle/

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Buildings Seen between Berlin and Dresden; Dresden: View down the Elbe towards the Palais Brühl, 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-buildings-seen-between-berlin-and-dresden-dresden-view-down-r1186915, accessed 25 April 2024.