Joseph Mallord William Turner

Schloss Weesenstein

1835

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Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of
Dresden and Saxon Switzerland Sketchbook
Medium
Graphite on paper
Dimensions
Support: 104 x 170 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D30901
Turner Bequest CCCVI 9 a

Catalogue entry

This is a sketch of Schloss Weesenstein, a castle in the Mueglitz Valley located to the south of Dresden. Set among wooded hillside and Italianate formal gardens, Weesenstein was for centuries the countryseat of the Saxon kings. See also Tate D30902–D30916; Turner Bequest CCCVI 10–17.

Alice Rylance-Watson
August 2015

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