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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Carriage Sketches of Schloss Weesenstein from the Road 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Carriage Sketches of Schloss Weesenstein from the Road’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 11 Verso:
Carriage Sketches of Schloss Weesenstein from the Road 1835
D30905
Turner Bequest CCCVI 11 a
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 170 x 104 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Produced with the sketchbook turned upside down, these rough sketches show Schloss Weesenstein, a castle in the Mueglitz Valley south of Dresden (see Tate D30901–D30916; Turner Bequest CCCVI 9a–17). Turner may have drawn these sketches from a moving carriage.

Alice Rylance-Watson
August 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Carriage Sketches of Schloss Weesenstein from the Road 1835 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, August 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-schloss-weesenstein-from-the-road-r1186777, accessed 11 May 2024.