Joseph Mallord William Turner

Dresden: Two Views up the Elbe

1835

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Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of
Dresden, Teplitz and Prague Sketchbook
Medium
Graphite on paper
Dimensions
Support: 100 x 159 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D30301
Turner Bequest CCCI 3 a

Catalogue entry

Here Turner records two prospects of the River Elbe at Dresden, Saxony. The principal view, taken from the banks of the river, shows the Augustus Bridge and Dresden’s churches in the distance: the domed Frauenkirche and the Hofkirche at right.
For more sketches of Dresden see Tate D30296–D30308, D30896–D30900, D31013, D31024–D31042; Turner Bequest CCCI 1–7, CCCVI 6a–9, 65a, CCCVII 3–12.

Alice Rylance-Watson
September 2015

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