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 The Elbe near Dresden, with a Church and a Boat in the Foreground 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Elbe near Dresden, with a Church and a Boat in the Foreground’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 63 Recto:
The Elbe near Dresden, with a Church and a Boat in the Foreground 1835
D31008
Turner Bequest CCCVI 63
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 104 x 170 mm
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘63’ top right and ‘3’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCCVI 63’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is the River Elbe, pictured near Dresden. A boat can be seen on the still waters at centre with a town beyond, marked out by the spire of its church. This may be Lohmen in Saxon Switzerland which is depicted on Tate D31008; Turner Bequest CCCVI 63.

Alice Rylance-Watson
August 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘The Elbe near Dresden, with a Church and a Boat in the Foreground 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-the-elbe-near-dresden-with-a-church-and-a-boat-in-the-r1186880, accessed 22 September 2024.