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 Hills; View up the Elbe to Schandau and Schrammsteine; Schandau and the Schrammsteine; Königstein Fortress and Lilienstein from the Direction of Schandau 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Hills; View up the Elbe to Schandau and Schrammsteine; Schandau and the Schrammsteine; Königstein Fortress and Lilienstein from the Direction of Schandau’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 33 Verso:
Hills; View up the Elbe to Schandau and Schrammsteine; Schandau and the Schrammsteine; Königstein Fortress and Lilienstein from the Direction of Schandau 1835
D30949
Turner Bequest CCCVI 33 a
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 170 x 104 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘K[...]’ top centre
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the sketchbook turned upside down, here Turner has rendered four slight views of Saxon Switzerland. From top to rear the drawings show: hills in the Elbe valley, the Elbe looking towards Bad Schandau and the Schrammsteine rocks, Schandau and Schrammsteine again with a boat navigating the river, and finally Liliensteine Mountain with the Königstein Fortress in the distance. The top sketch is inscribed ‘K[...]’.
For more sketches of Königstein, Liliestein,Schandau and the Schrammsteine range see Tate D30931–D30970; Turner Bequest CCCVI 24a–44.

Alice Rylance-Watson
August 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Hills; View up the Elbe to Schandau and Schrammsteine; Schandau and the Schrammsteine; Königstein Fortress and Lilienstein from the Direction of Schandau 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-hills-view-up-the-elbe-to-schandau-and-schrammsteine-r1186821, accessed 25 April 2024.