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 the Schrammsteine; Hills near Schandau 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘View up the Elbe to the Schrammsteine; Hills near Schandau’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 35 Recto:
View up the Elbe to the Schrammsteine; Hills near Schandau 1835
D30952
Turner Bequest CCCVI 35
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 104 x 170 mm
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘35’ top right and ‘3’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCCVI 35’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is a prospect of the Schrammsteine, a chain of jagged mountains located to the east of Bad Schandau, Saxony. Below is a view of hills near Schandau, continued on the folio opposite (Tate D30951; Turner Bequest CCCVI 34a).

Alice Rylance-Watson
August 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘View up the Elbe to the Schrammsteine; Hills near 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-view-up-the-elbe-to-the-schrammsteine-hills-near-schandau-r1186824, accessed 18 April 2024.