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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Two Sketches of Königstein Fortress 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Two Sketches of Königstein Fortress’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 24 Verso:
Two Sketches of Königstein Fortress 1835
D30931
Turner Bequest CCCVI 24 a
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 104 x 170 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
These are sketches of the Festung Königstein, a sandstone fortress built into a plateau of the same name. The fortress, overlooking the River Elbe, was a residence of the Electors and Kings of Saxony and later a state prison.1 The stronghold is shown again on Tate D30931–D30947, D30949; Turner Bequest CCCVI 24a–32a, 33a.

Alice Rylance-Watson
August 2015

1
‘History’, Festung Königstein, accessed 28 August 2015, http://www.festung-koenigstein.de/en/history.html

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Two Sketches of Königstein Fortress 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-two-sketches-of-konigstein-fortress-r1186803, accessed 19 September 2024.