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 ... > Copenhagen to Dresden Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Dresden from Räcknitz; The Elbe Valley near Dresden 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Dresden from Räcknitz; The Elbe Valley near Dresden’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 3 Verso
Dresden from Räcknitz; The Elbe Valley near Dresden 1835
D31027
Turner Bequest CCCVII 4 a
Pencil on cream laid paper, 89 x 162 mm
Watermark double X mark
Inscribed in red ink, possibly by Ruskin, ‘399. [?Juo]’ bottom left (ascending)
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
These cursory sketches show Dresden, taken from a vantage point in the southern district of Räcknitz and, orientated inversely, a view of the valley of the River Elbe.
For more sketches of Dresden see Tate D30296–D30303, D30896–D30900, D31024–D31042; Turner Bequest CCCI 1–7, CCCVI 6a–9, CCCVII 3–12.
Technical notes:
A modern paper stub has been inserted between this page and Tate D31028; Turner Bequest CCCVII 5.

Alice Rylance-Watson
May 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Dresden from Räcknitz; The Elbe Valley near Dresden 1835 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 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-dresden-from-racknitz-the-elbe-valley-near-dresden-r1186900, accessed 26 April 2024.