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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Three Sketches, the Second Showing a Distant View of Pirna 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Three Sketches, the Second Showing a Distant View of Pirna’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 18 Verso:
Three Sketches, the Second Showing a Distant View of Pirna 1835
D30919
Turner Bequest CCCVI 18 a
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 104 x 170 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
These are three cursory prospects of the Elbe in Saxony. The central sketch is a distant view of Pirna and the Schloss Sonnenstein.

Alice Rylance-Watson
August 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Three Sketches, the Second Showing a Distant View of Pirna 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-three-sketches-the-second-showing-a-distant-view-of-pirna-r1186791, accessed 24 April 2024.