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 Three Sketches on the Elbe, the First Two Showing Pirna and Sonnenstein 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Three Sketches on the Elbe, the First Two Showing Pirna and Sonnenstein’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
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Three Sketches on the Elbe, the First Two Showing Pirna and Sonnenstein 1835
D30925
Turner Bequest CCCVI 21 a
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 104 x 170 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Here Turner has rendered three sketches of the River Elbe in Saxony; the upper and central views show Pirna and the Castle Sonnenstein which overlooks the town from atop a high ridge.
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, ‘Three Sketches on the Elbe, the First Two Showing Pirna and Sonnenstein 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-three-sketches-on-the-elbe-the-first-two-showing-pirna-and-r1186797, accessed 04 April 2026.