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 Königstein Town and Fortress and View down the Elbe; Königstein Fortress 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Königstein Town and Fortress and View down the Elbe; Königstein Fortress’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 31 Recto:
Königstein Town and Fortress and View down the Elbe; Königstein Fortress 1835
D30944
Turner Bequest CCCVI 31
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 104 x 170 mm
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘31’ top right and ‘3’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCCVI 31’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is a sketch of Königstein in Saxony, dominated by a fortress of the same name. The Elbe flows at the base of the mountain. Below is a jotting of Königstein Fortress. See also Tate D30931–D30947, D30949; Turner Bequest CCCVI 24a–32a, 33a.

Alice Rylance-Watson
August 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Königstein Town and Fortress and View down the Elbe; 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-konigstein-town-and-fortress-and-view-down-the-elbe-r1186816, accessed 22 September 2024.