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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1830-35 Annual tourist > Northern Germany, the Elbe and Prague ... > Dresden and Saxon Switzerland Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner View up the Elbe to Lilienstein and Königstein, from the Hillside; Königstein Fortress: North Side 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘View up the Elbe to Lilienstein and Königstein, from the Hillside; Königstein Fortress: North Side’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 28 Verso:
View up the Elbe to Lilienstein and Königstein, from the Hillside; Königstein Fortress: North Side 1835
D30939
Turner Bequest CCCVI 28 a
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 104 x 170 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
These are views of the Elbe in Saxon Switzerland, rendered inversely to one another. One shows the Elbe meandering around the base of two rock formations: the Lilienstein at left and the Königstein at right. Atop the latter of these plateaux is the Festung Königstein, which is depicted in the other sketch. Turner shows the fortress’ north side. It is shown again on Tate D30931–D30947, D30949; Turner Bequest CCCVI 24a–32a, 33a.

Alice Rylance-Watson
August 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘View up the Elbe to Lilienstein and Königstein, from the Hillside; Königstein Fortress: North Side 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-view-up-the-elbe-to-lilienstein-and-konigstein-from-the-r1186811, accessed 25 April 2024.