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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1830-35 Annual tourist > Northern Germany, the Elbe and Prague ... > Dresden and Saxon Switzerland Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Pirna: The Fortress of Sonnenstein and View up the Elbe 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Pirna: The Fortress of Sonnenstein and View up the Elbe’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 24 Recto:
Pirna: The Fortress of Sonnenstein and View up the Elbe 1835
D30930
Turner Bequest CCCVI 24
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 170 x 104 mm
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘24’ top right and ‘3’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCCVI 24’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This cursory view is of Pirna, Saxony, with the Schloss Sonnenstein atop the ridge at right and the Elbe beyond. This sketch was produced with the book turned upside down. For more sketches of Pirna see Tate D30919–D30928, D30930, D31011; Turner Bequest CCCVI 18a–23, 24, 64a.

Alice Rylance-Watson
August 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Pirna: The Fortress of Sonnenstein and View up 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-pirna-the-fortress-of-sonnenstein-and-view-up-the-elbe-r1186802, accessed 13 June 2026.