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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Prospect of Hills, with the Site of the Battle of Kulm (1813) 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Prospect of Hills, with the Site of the Battle of Kulm (1813)’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 38 Verso:
Prospect of Hills, with the Site of the Battle of Kulm (1813) 1835
D30369
Turner Bequest CCCI 38 a
Pencil on cream wove paper, 100 x 159 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Nuldorf’ centre
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This cursory and swiftly rendered sketch depicts the site of the Battle of Kulm, which took place near Kulm, Nollendorf and Teplitz in northern Bohemia between 29 and 30 August 1813. The Battle was part of the War of the Sixth Coalition, fought between Napoleon’s armies and a coalition comprised of Russian, Prussian and Austrian forces.
Turner passed the site as he journeyed from Dresden in Saxony to Teplitz; see also Tate D30367–D30368, D30370; Turner Bequest CCCI 37a–38, 39.

Alice Rylance-Watson
September 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Prospect of Hills, with the Site of the Battle of Kulm (1813) 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-prospect-of-hills-with-the-site-of-the-battle-of-kulm-1813-r1186753, accessed 25 April 2024.