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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Teplitz: View from the East (the Ascent to the Schlossberg) with the Königshöhe and Stefanshöhe in the Foreground 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Teplitz: View from the East (the Ascent to the Schlossberg) with the Königshöhe and Stefanshöhe in the Foreground’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
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Teplitz: View from the East (the Ascent to the Schlossberg) with the Königshöhe and Stefanshöhe in the Foreground 1835
D30325
Turner Bequest CCCI 15 a
Pencil on cream wove paper, 100 x 159 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is a view of Teplitz in Bohemia (now Teplice in modern day Czech Republic), taken from the east as Turner ascended Schlossberg hill. From here the artist was afforded an expansive prospect of Teplitz’s principal buildings as well as the Königshöhe and Stefanshöhe hills.
For more sketches of the town see Tate D30315–D30335; Turner Bequest CCCI 10a–20a.

Alice Rylance-Watson
September 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Teplitz: View from the East (the Ascent to the Schlossberg) with the Königshöhe and Stefanshöhe in the Foreground 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-teplitz-view-from-the-east-the-ascent-to-the-schlossberg-r1186709, accessed 18 April 2024.