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 The Elbe East of Dresden with Wooded Hills 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Elbe East of Dresden with Wooded Hills’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 66 Verso:
The Elbe East of Dresden with Wooded Hills 1835
D31015
Turner Bequest CCCVI 66 a
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 104 x 170 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Wall’ centre
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is a cursory sketch of the River Elbe, taken from hillside east of Dresden. Turner has inscribed ‘wall’ at centre.

Alice Rylance-Watson
August 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘The Elbe East of Dresden with Wooded Hills 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-r1186887, accessed 26 April 2024.