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 Lilienstein and View up the Elbe from upriver from Königstein Town 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Lilienstein and View up the Elbe from upriver from Königstein Town’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 31 Verso:
Lilienstein and View up the Elbe from upriver from Königstein Town 1835
D30945
Turner Bequest CCCVI 31 a
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 104 x 170 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is a prospect of Lilienstein Mountain in Saxon Switzerland, with the Elbe beyond. It was taken from the town of Königstein. See also Tate D30931–D30947, D30949; Turner Bequest CCCVI 24a–32a, 33a.

Alice Rylance-Watson
August 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Lilienstein and View up the Elbe from upriver from Königstein 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-lilienstein-and-view-up-the-elbe-from-upriver-from-r1186817, accessed 26 April 2024.