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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Teplitz: Three Sketches of the Castle on the Schlossberg 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Teplitz: Three Sketches of the Castle on the Schlossberg’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 16 Recto:
Teplitz: Three Sketches of the Castle on the Schlossberg 1835
D30326
Turner Bequest CCCI 16
Pencil on cream wove paper, 100 x 159 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Slushburg’ bottom left ascending
Inscribed in red ink by Ruskin ‘16’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCCI – 16’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Here Turner has rendered three sketches of the medieval castle on Schlossberg hill at Teplitz (modern day Teplice in the Czech Republic). Schlossberg is known as Doubravka Hill in Czech.
The views are rendered inversely relative to one another; Turner has inscribed what appears to read ‘Slushburg’ at bottom left, presumably to signify ‘Schlossberg’. See also Tate D30326–D30331; Turner Bequest CCCI 16–18a.

Alice Rylance-Watson
September 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Teplitz: Three Sketches of the Castle on the Schlossberg 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-three-sketches-of-the-castle-on-the-schlossberg-r1186710, accessed 26 April 2024.