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 Distant View of Lilienstein and Königstein from the Lohmen-Uttewalde Road; Sketches in the Uttewalder-Grund 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Distant View of Lilienstein and Königstein from the Lohmen-Uttewalde Road; Sketches in the Uttewalder-Grund’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 62 Verso:
Distant View of Lilienstein and Königstein from the Lohmen-Uttewalde Road; Sketches in the Uttewalder-Grund 1835
D31007
Turner Bequest CCCVI 62 a
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 104 x 170 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
From a vantage point on the Lohmen-Uttewalde road, here Turner depicts Lilienstein and Königstein mountains in Saxon Switzerland. The other sketches, rendered with the sketchbook turned in accordance with the foliation, show the gorge of Uttewalder Grund (see also Tate D31005–D31006; Turner Bequest CCCVI 61a–62).

Alice Rylance-Watson
August 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Distant View of Lilienstein and Königstein from the Lohmen-Uttewalde Road; Sketches in the Uttewalder-Grund 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-distant-view-of-lilienstein-and-konigstein-from-the-lohmen-r1186879, accessed 01 October 2025.