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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Teplitz: The Castle on the Schlossberg 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Teplitz: The Castle on the Schlossberg’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 17 Recto:
Teplitz: The Castle on the Schlossberg 1835
D30328
Turner Bequest CCCI 17
Pencil on cream wove paper, 100 x 159 mm
Inscribed in red ink by Ruskin ‘17’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCCI – 17’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Here Turner has rendered four sketches of the ruined medieval castle on Schlossberg hill at Teplitz, Bohemia (modern day Teplice in the Czech Republic). See also Tate D30326–D30331; Turner Bequest CCCI 16–18a.

Alice Rylance-Watson
September 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Teplitz: 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-the-castle-on-the-schlossberg-r1186712, accessed 18 April 2024.