J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
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Joseph Mallord William Turner Sketches of Rocky Landscapes in Saxon Switzerland 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Sketches of Rocky Landscapes in Saxon Switzerland’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 42 Recto:
Sketches of Rocky Landscapes in Saxon Switzerland 1835
D30966
Turner Bequest CCCVI 42
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 170 x 104 mm
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘42’ top right and ‘3’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCCVI 42’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
These are sketches of Saxon Switzerland, rendered with the book turned upside down. They are continued onto the folio opposite (Tate D30965; Turner Bequest CCCVI 41a).

Alice Rylance-Watson
August 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Sketches of Rocky Landscapes in Saxon Switzerland 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-sketches-of-rocky-landscapes-in-saxon-switzerland-r1186838, accessed 25 April 2024.