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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1830-35 Annual tourist > Northern Germany, the Elbe and Prague ... > Dresden and Saxon Switzerland Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Distant View of Pirna from the Dresden Road 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Distant View of Pirna from the Dresden Road’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 19 Recto:
Distant View of Pirna from the Dresden Road 1835
D30920
Turner Bequest CCCVI 19
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 104 x 170 mm
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘19’ top right and ‘3’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCCVI 19’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is a distant prospect of the Saxon town of Pirna, taken from a vantage point on the Dresden road.

Alice Rylance-Watson
August 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Distant View of Pirna from the Dresden 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-distant-view-of-pirna-from-the-dresden-road-r1186792, accessed 20 August 2025.