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 View Southwards to Lilienstein with the Bastei Viewing Platform on the Left 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘View Southwards to Lilienstein with the Bastei Viewing Platform on the Left’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 54 Recto:
View Southwards to Lilienstein with the Bastei Viewing Platform on the Left 1835
D30990
Turner Bequest CCCVI 54
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 104 x 170 mm
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘54’ top right and ‘3’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCCVI 54’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is a cursory sketch of the Elbe valley in Saxony, looking towards Lilienstein Mountain. Turner drew this prospect on the Bastei rocks, close to a viewing platform which can be seen on the left. See also Tate D30981–D31001; Turner Bequest CCCVI 49a–59a.

Alice Rylance-Watson
August 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘View Southwards to Lilienstein with the Bastei Viewing Platform on the Left 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-southwards-to-lilienstein-with-the-bastei-viewing-r1186862, accessed 25 April 2024.