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 down the Elbe from the Bastei, with the Bärensteine 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘View down the Elbe from the Bastei, with the Bärensteine’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 48 Verso:
View down the Elbe from the Bastei, with the Bärensteine 1835
D30979
Turner Bequest CCCVI 48 a
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 104 x 170 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is a prospect of the Elbe valley in Saxon Switzerland. Taken from the Bastei rocks, the view encompasses the Bärensteine massif on the other side of the river. The Bärensteine iscomprised of two formations: ‘Great’ and ‘Little Bear’ Rocks.

Alice Rylance-Watson
August 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘View down the Elbe from the Bastei, with the Bärensteine 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-down-the-elbe-from-the-bastei-with-the-barensteine-r1186851, accessed 26 April 2024.