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 with the Johanniskirche at Schandau and the Schrammsteine 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘View up the Elbe with the Johanniskirche at Schandau and the Schrammsteine’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 36 Recto:
View up the Elbe with the Johanniskirche at Schandau and the Schrammsteine 1835
D30954
Turner Bequest CCCVI 36
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 104 x 170 mm
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘36’ top right and ‘3’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCCVI 36’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Here Turner depicts the spa town of Schandau (now Bad Schandau) in Saxon Switzerland. The Church of St John (Johanniskirche) can be seen at left, with boats on the Elbe and the Schrammsteine mountain range beyond.
For more sketches of the town 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 with the Johanniskirche at Schandau and the Schrammsteine 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-with-the-johanniskirche-at-schandau-and-the-r1186826, accessed 11 May 2024.