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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1830-35 Annual tourist > Northern Germany, the Elbe and Prague ... > Dresden and Saxon Switzerland Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Among the Rocks of the Bastei 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Among the Rocks of the Bastei’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 52 Recto:
Among the Rocks of the Bastei 1835
D30986
Turner Bequest CCCVI 52
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 104 x 170 mm
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘52’ top right and ‘3’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCCVI 52’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner produced this sketch as he explored the Bastei, a rock formation in Saxon Switzerland. See also Tate D30981–D31001; Turner Bequest CCCVI 49a–59a.

Alice Rylance-Watson
August 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Among the Rocks of the Bastei 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-among-the-rocks-of-the-bastei-r1186858, accessed 23 September 2024.