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 Königstein Fortress: View from the Town 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Königstein Fortress: View from the Town’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 29 Verso:
Königstein Fortress: View from the Town 1835
D30941
Turner Bequest CCCVI 29 a
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 104 x 170 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Bridge’ bottom right (inverted)
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is a view of Königstein Fortress in Saxon Switzerland. It is shown again on Tate D30931–D30947, D30949; Turner Bequest CCCVI 24a–32a, 33a.
Part of the view from the folio opposite (Tate D30942; Turner Bequest CCCVI 30) is rendered at bottom right and the word ‘Bridge’ is inscribed to annotate it.

Alice Rylance-Watson
August 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Königstein Fortress: View from the Town 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-konigstein-fortress-view-from-the-town-r1186813, accessed 25 April 2024.