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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Carriage Sketches of Bohemia, including Eger 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Carriage Sketches of Bohemia, including Eger’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 63 Verso:
Carriage Sketches of Bohemia, including Eger 1835
D30751
Turner Bequest CCCIV 63 a
Pencil on cream laid paper, 118 x 190 mm
Watermark with the Lion of the Seven Provinces
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
These rough sketches were probably taken as Turner journeyed through mountains of western Bohemia towards the Bavarian border. The jottings continue onto the folio opposite (Tate D30752; Turner Bequest CCCIV 64).
The sketch inscribed ‘Eger’ depicts modern day Cheb in the Czech Republic, known in 1835 as Eger. Eger cast

Alice Rylance-Watson
December 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Carriage Sketches of Bohemia, including Eger 1835 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, December 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-carriage-sketches-of-bohemia-including-eger-r1187126, accessed 04 April 2026.