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 Southwards to Lilienstein, Pfaffenstein and Königstein with the Bastei Platform among Trees 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘View Southwards to Lilienstein, Pfaffenstein and Königstein with the Bastei Platform among Trees’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 54 Verso:
View Southwards to Lilienstein, Pfaffenstein and Königstein with the Bastei Platform among Trees 1835
D30991
Turner Bequest CCCVI 54 a
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 104 x 170 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Here Turner shows the Elbe valley in Saxony, looking towards the Lilienstein, Pfaffenstein andKönigstein Mountains. The prospect was taken close to a viewing platform on the Bastei Rocks, seen through trees. 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, Pfaffenstein and Königstein with the Bastei Platform among Trees 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-pfaffenstein-and-konigstein-r1186863, accessed 25 April 2024.