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 Schloss Weesenstein from the Road, with the Bridge on the Left 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Schloss Weesenstein from the Road, with the Bridge on the Left’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 16 Recto:
Schloss Weesenstein from the Road, with the Bridge on the Left 1835
D30914
Turner Bequest CCCVI 16
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 170 x 104 mm
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘16’ top right and ‘3’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCCVI 16’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is a study of Schloss Weesenstein, a castle in the Mueglitz Valley located to the south of Dresden. Set among wooded hillside and Italianate formal gardens, Weesenstein was for centuries the countryseat of the Saxon kings. The rest of the castle tower extends onto the folio opposite (Tate D30913; Turner Bequest CCCVI 15a).
See also Tate D30901–D30916; Turner Bequest CCCVI 9a–17.

Alice Rylance-Watson
August 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Schloss Weesenstein from the Road, with the Bridge on the Left 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-schloss-weesenstein-from-the-road-with-the-bridge-on-the-r1186786, accessed 19 April 2024.