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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8

Joseph Mallord William Turner View up the Elbe from the Bastei with Lilienstein in the Distance 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 49 Recto:
View up the Elbe from the Bastei with Lilienstein in the Distance 1835
D30980
Turner Bequest CCCVI 49
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 104 x 170 mm
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘49’ top right and ‘3’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCCVI 49’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This prospect shows the Elbe valley in Saxon Switzerland, taken from a vantage point at the Bastei rocks and looking towards Lilienstein plateau in the distance.

Alice Rylance-Watson
August 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘View up the Elbe from the Bastei with Lilienstein in the Distance 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-from-the-bastei-with-lilienstein-in-the-r1186852, accessed 28 March 2024.