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 Three Sketches, One Showing Loschwitz from the Elbe 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Three Sketches, One Showing Loschwitz from the Elbe’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 67 Verso:
Three Sketches, One Showing Loschwitz from the Elbe 1835
D31017
Turner Bequest CCCVI 67 a
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 104 x 170 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Ostwitz’ top centre, ‘Ebe’ centre right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
These jottings show scenes on the River Elbe (inscribed ‘Ebe’) in Saxony. The principal view depicts the town of Loschwitz (inscribed ‘Ostwitz’) and its church.

Alice Rylance-Watson
August 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Three Sketches, One Showing Loschwitz 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-three-sketches-one-showing-loschwitz-from-the-elbe-r1186889, accessed 19 September 2024.