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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8

Joseph Mallord William Turner Two Sketches, One Showing Lohmen Church, Looking towards Pillnitz 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 63 Verso:
Two Sketches, One Showing Lohmen Church, Looking towards Pillnitz 1835
D31009
Turner Bequest CCCVI 63 a
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 170 x 104 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Lob[...]’ top centre
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
These two jottings, rendered with the sketchbook turned upside-down, show landscapes in Saxony. The uppermost view depicts the town of Lohmen with its church at right and Pillnitz (an easterly suburb of Dresden) in the distance.

Alice Rylance-Watson
August 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Two Sketches, One Showing Lohmen Church, Looking towards Pillnitz 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-two-sketches-one-showing-lohmen-church-looking-towards-r1186881, accessed 19 September 2024.