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 Gorge on the Elbe; Bend on the Elbe 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Gorge on the Elbe; Bend on the Elbe’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 37 Recto:
Gorge on the Elbe; Bend on the Elbe 1835
D30956
Turner Bequest CCCVI 37
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 104 x 170 mm
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘37’ top right and ‘3’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCCVI 37’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Here Turner depicts a gorge in Saxon Switzerland, probably the same one as is shown on Tate D30955; Turner Bequest CCCVI 36a. With the sketchbook turned upside down, Turner has also produced a view of the Elbe valley.

Alice Rylance-Watson
August 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Gorge on the Elbe; Bend on the Elbe 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-gorge-on-the-elbe-bend-on-the-elbe-r1186828, accessed 04 April 2026.