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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Dresden: View across the Elbe to the Kreuzkirche and Frauenkirche 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Dresden: View across the Elbe to the Kreuzkirche and Frauenkirche’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
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Dresden: View across the Elbe to the Kreuzkirche and Frauenkirche 1835
D30303
Turner Bequest CCCI 4 a
Pencil on cream wove paper, 100 x 159 mm
Partial Watermark ‘cf’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This slight but evocative view shows the Saxon city of Dresden from the banks of the River Elbe. In the foreground a boatman can be seen navigating his vessel along the still waters, and in the distance the city’s Kreuzkirche and domed Frauenkirche can be seen. Turner has used quick vertical hatching and single strokes of the pencil to render reflections on the river.
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, ‘Dresden: View across the Elbe to the Kreuzkirche and Frauenkirche 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-dresden-view-across-the-elbe-to-the-kreuzkirche-and-r1186687, accessed 24 April 2024.