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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Two Sketches of Dresden from along the Elbe: Looking Downstream to the Bridge and Principal Buildings; Looking Upstream to the City from its Outskirts 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Two Sketches of Dresden from along the Elbe: Looking Downstream to the Bridge and Principal Buildings; Looking Upstream to the City from its Outskirts’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 2 Recto:
Two Sketches of Dresden from along the Elbe: Looking Downstream to the Bridge and Principal Buildings; Looking Upstream to the City from its Outskirts 1835
D30298
Turner Bequest CCCI 2
Pencil on cream wove paper, 100 x 159 mm
Inscribed in red ink by Ruskin ‘2’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCCI–2’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Here Turner depicts the Saxon capital Dresden from a vantage point on the banks of the River Elbe. The uppermost sketch shows the city’s Frauenkirche, Hofkirche and Dresden Castle to the left of the bridge. Below is a view taken from the same spot, looking in the converse direction.
For more sketches of Dresden see Tate D30296–D30308, D30896–D30900, D31013, D31024–D31042; Turner Bequest CCCI 1–7, CCCVI 6a–9, 65a, CCCVII 3–12.

Alice Rylance-Watson
September 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Two Sketches of Dresden from along the Elbe: Looking Downstream to the Bridge and Principal Buildings; Looking Upstream to the City from its Outskirts 1835 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 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-two-sketches-of-dresden-from-along-the-elbe-looking-r1186682, accessed 18 April 2024.