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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1830-35 Annual tourist > Northern Germany, the Elbe and Prague ... > Dresden and Saxon Switzerland Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Church and Hillside in Saxon Switzerland 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Church and Hillside in Saxon Switzerland’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 5 Verso:
Church and Hillside in Saxon Switzerland 1835
D30893
Turner Bequest CCCVI 5
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 170 x 104 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Albrechtsburg’ ‘Slope’, ‘M[...]’ centre (inverted)
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘5’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CCCVI 5’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Rendered with the sketchbook turned upside down, this sketch is part of a view of hillside and a town which continues onto the folio opposite (Tate D30895; Turner Bequest CCCVI 5a). The location is most likely Saxon Switzerland. Turner has inscribed ‘Albrechtsburg’ ‘Slope’, ‘M[...]’ at the rear of the view.

Alice Rylance-Watson
August 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Church and Hillside in Saxon Switzerland 1835 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, August 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-church-and-hillside-in-saxon-switzerland-r1186766, accessed 19 April 2024.