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; Königstein Town and Fortress, from the Schandau Road; Königstein Town and Fortress and Lilienstein, from the Schandau Road 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Lilienstein; Königstein Town and Fortress, from the Schandau Road; Königstein Town and Fortress and Lilienstein, from the Schandau Road’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 32 Recto:
Lilienstein; Königstein Town and Fortress, from the Schandau Road; Königstein Town and Fortress and Lilienstein, from the Schandau Road 1835
D30946
Turner Bequest CCCVI 32
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 104 x 170 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Lilnestein & K’ bottom right
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘32’ top right and ‘3’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCCVI 32’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
These sketches show mountains in Saxon Switzerland.
With the sketchbook turned in accordance with the foliation, Turner has drawn a squared-off jotting of Lilienstein Mountain.
The other views are drawn with the book turned horizontally, in landscape format. They show Königstein fortress and town from a vantage point on the Schandau Road and Königstein again, with the fortress at right and Lilienstein Mountain in the distance. Turner has inscribed the note ‘Lilnestein & K’ at bottom left. See also Tate D30931–D30947, D30949; Turner Bequest CCCVI 24a–32a, 33a.

Alice Rylance-Watson
August 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Lilienstein; Königstein Town and Fortress, from the Schandau Road; Königstein Town and Fortress and Lilienstein, from the Schandau Road 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-konigstein-town-and-fortress-from-the-schandau-r1186818, accessed 23 September 2024.