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 Schloss Pillnitz from the Elbe 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Schloss Pillnitz from the Elbe’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 65 Recto:
Schloss Pillnitz from the Elbe 1835
D31012
Turner Bequest CCCVI 65
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 104 x 170 mm
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘65’ top right and ‘3’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCCVI 65’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
From the River Elbe, here Turner has depicted the castle at Pillnitz near Dresden (see Tate D31010; Turner Bequest CCCVI 64).

Alice Rylance-Watson
August 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Schloss Pillnitz from the Elbe 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-schloss-pillnitz-from-the-elbe-r1186884, accessed 25 April 2024.