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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Dresden: The Zwinger from across the Moat with the Crown Gate, Long Gallery and Bridge 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Dresden: The Zwinger from across the Moat with the Crown Gate, Long Gallery and Bridge’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 7 Recto:
Dresden: The Zwinger from across the Moat with the Crown Gate, Long Gallery and Bridge 1835
D30308
Turner Bequest CCCI 7
Pencil on cream wove paper, 100 x 159 mm
Inscribed in red ink by Ruskin ‘7’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCCI – 7’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This cursory sketch shows the Zwinger at Dresden, a baroque palace used for imperial entertainments and to house the Saxon electorate’s collection of paintings. The façade of the Zwinger’s Long Gallery is depicted here, with the Crown Gate, a ceremonial entranceway topped with a giant decorated crown.
For more sketches of Dresden see Tate D30296–D30307, D30896–D30900, D31013, D31024–D31042; Turner Bequest CCCI 1–6a, CCCVI 6a–9, 65a, CCCVII 3–12.

Alice Rylance-Watson
September 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Dresden: The Zwinger from across the Moat with the Crown Gate, Long Gallery and Bridge 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-the-zwinger-from-across-the-moat-with-the-crown-gate-r1186692, accessed 26 April 2024.