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 Schandau; Lilienstein from near Schandau; Königstein and Lilienstein from near Schandau 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Schandau; Lilienstein from near Schandau; Königstein and Lilienstein from near Schandau’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 39 Verso:
Schandau; Lilienstein from near Schandau; Königstein and Lilienstein from near Schandau 1835
D30961
Turner Bequest CCCVI 39 a
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 170 x 104 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Gaspard’, ‘Shandau’ right centre
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
These sketches show Saxon Switzerland. The uppermost drawings depict Schandau (now Bad Schandau), and Schandau again, with the Lilienstein Mountain in the distance. Turner has inscribed the notes ‘Gaspard’ and ‘Shandau’ at centre right. ‘Gaspard’ refers to the French seventeenth-century landscape painter Gaspard Dughet (1615–75).
The other sketches are rendered with the book turned upside down and show Lilienstein and Königstein Mountains. They continued onto the folio opposite (Tate D30962; Turner Bequest CCCVI 40).
For more sketches of Schandau see Tate D30948–D30970; Turner Bequest CCCVI 33–44.

Alice Rylance-Watson
August 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Schandau; Lilienstein from near Schandau; Königstein and Lilienstein from 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-schandau-lilienstein-from-near-schandau-konigstein-and-r1186833, accessed 20 September 2024.