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 'Swinger' (The Zwinger, Dresden) 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘'Swinger' (The Zwinger, Dresden)’ 1835 (Inside back cover of sketchbook)
Inside back cover of sketchbook
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Inside Back Cover:
‘Swinger’ (The Zwinger, Dresden) 1835
D41124
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 104 x 170 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Swinger’, ‘[...]’ top centre
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
On the back cover pastedown Turner has inscribed ‘Swinger’, which refers to the Zwinger in Dresden, Saxony and a second illegible word.

Alice Rylance-Watson
August 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘‘Swinger’ (The Zwinger, Dresden) 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-swinger-the-zwinger-dresden-r1186892, accessed 21 May 2025.