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 View up the Elbe to Schandau and the Schrammsteine; Version of the Same View 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘View up the Elbe to Schandau and the Schrammsteine; Version of the Same View’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 32 Recto:
View up the Elbe to Schandau and the Schrammsteine; Version of the Same View 1835
D30950
Turner Bequest CCCVI 34
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 104 x 170 mm
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘34’ top right and ‘3’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCCVI 34’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Here Turner has rendered a prospect of the Elbe in Saxony, looking towards Schandau (now Bad Schandau) and the jagged Schrammstein mountains. A version of the same view has been drawn below. For more sketches of Schandau and the Schrammsteine range see Tate D30948–D30970; Turner Bequest CCCVI 33–44.

Alice Rylance-Watson
August 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘View up the Elbe to Schandau and the Schrammsteine; Version of the Same View 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-view-up-the-elbe-to-schandau-and-the-schrammsteine-version-r1186822, accessed 19 September 2024.