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 Two Sketches of the Elbe Valley, One Looking Down on Pirna from the Pirna-Königstein Road 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Two Sketches of the Elbe Valley, One Looking Down on Pirna from the Pirna-Königstein Road’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 64 Verso:
Two Sketches of the Elbe Valley, One Looking Down on Pirna from the Pirna-Königstein Road 1835
D31011
Turner Bequest CCCVI 64 a
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 104 x 170 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Sonnenstein’ bottom centre
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
These are two sketches of the Elbe valley in Saxony. The lowermost view shows Pirna, taken from the Pirna-Königstein road. Part of Sonnenstein Castle is visible at centre.

Alice Rylance-Watson
August 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Two Sketches of the Elbe Valley, One Looking Down on Pirna from the Pirna-Königstein Road 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-of-the-elbe-valley-one-looking-down-on-pirna-r1186883, accessed 26 April 2024.