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 Two Sketches, One Showing Lohmen Church, Looking towards Pillnitz 1835

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.