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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Sketches of Rocky Landscapes East of Schandau 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Sketches of Rocky Landscapes East of Schandau’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 43 Verso:
Sketches of Rocky Landscapes East of Schandau 1835
D30969
Turner Bequest CCCVI 43 a
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 170 x 104 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘[?Cut Wood]’ bottom left
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This series of views, rendered with the sketchbook turned upside down, depicts mountains to the east of Schandau in Saxon Switzerland. The lowermost sketch continues onto the folio opposite (Tate D30970; Turner Bequest CCCVI 44). At bottom right Turner has inscribed the note ‘[Cut Wood]’.

Alice Rylance-Watson
August 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Sketches of Rocky Landscapes East of 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-sketches-of-rocky-landscapes-east-of-schandau-r1186841, accessed 24 April 2024.