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 (1) View up the Elbe to Lilienstein and Königstein Town and Fortress, from the Hillside; (2) (3) Königstein from the North-West 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘(1) View up the Elbe to Lilienstein and Königstein Town and Fortress, from the Hillside; (2) (3) Königstein from the North-West’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 28 Recto:
(1) View up the Elbe to Lilienstein and Königstein Town and Fortress, from the Hillside; (2) (3) Königstein from the North-West 1835
D30938
Turner Bequest CCCVI 28
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 170 x 104 mm
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘28’ top right and ‘3’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCCVI 28’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
These sketches, which are continued on the folio opposite (Tate D30938; Turner Bequest CCCVI 28), show the River Elbe in Saxony. The uppermost view depicts Lilienstein Mountain and the town of Königstein, overlooked at right by Königstein Mountain and Fortress. Below are two views of the same town taken from a north-westerly vantage point. For more drawings of Königstein see Tate D30931–D30947, D30949; Turner Bequest CCCVI 24a–32a, 33a.

Alice Rylance-Watson
August 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘(1) View up the Elbe to Lilienstein and Königstein Town and Fortress, from the Hillside; (2) (3) Königstein from the North-West 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-1-view-up-the-elbe-to-lilienstein-and-konigstein-town-and-r1186810, accessed 18 September 2024.