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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Four Sketches of the Uttewalder-Grund: The Teufelsküche Looking towards Wehlen; Looking in the Opposite Direction to from the Same Viewpoint 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Four Sketches of the Uttewalder-Grund: The Teufelsküche Looking towards Wehlen; Looking in the Opposite Direction to from the Same Viewpoint’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 61 Verso:
Four Sketches of the Uttewalder-Grund: The Teufelsküche Looking towards Wehlen; Looking in the Opposite Direction to from the Same Viewpoint 1835
D31005
Turner Bequest CCCVI 61 a
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 170 x 104 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘W[...] | OW’ left centre, ‘Tuforstu[...]’ bottom left [inverted]
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
These are four views of the Uttewalder Grund in Saxon Switzerland. Two of the sketches show the Teufelsküche (‘Devil’s Kitchen’), looking towards the town of Stadt Wehlen and the view in the opposite direction. The inscriptions ‘‘W[...] | OW’ and ‘Tuforstu[...]’ refer to Teufelsküche. See also Tate D31006–D31007; Turner Bequest CCCVI 62–62a.

Alice Rylance-Watson
August 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Four Sketches of the Uttewalder-Grund: The Teufelsküche Looking towards Wehlen; Looking in the Opposite Direction to from the Same Viewpoint 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-four-sketches-of-the-uttewalder-grund-the-teufelskuche-r1186877, accessed 05 April 2026.