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 East of Dresden with Wooded Hills and the Flying Bridge of Loschwitz Carrying Carts 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Elbe East of Dresden with Wooded Hills and the Flying Bridge of Loschwitz Carrying Carts’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 66 Recto:
The Elbe East of Dresden with Wooded Hills and the Flying Bridge of Loschwitz Carrying Carts 1835
D31014
Turner Bequest CCCVI 66
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 104 x 170 mm
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘66’ top right and ‘3’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCCVI 66’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is a rough sketch of the Elbe, pictured east of Dresden. The flying bridge at Loschwitz can be seen at left, carrying carts.

Alice Rylance-Watson
August 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘The Elbe East of Dresden with Wooded Hills and the Flying Bridge of Loschwitz Carrying Carts 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-east-of-dresden-with-wooded-hills-and-the-flying-r1186886, accessed 21 September 2024.