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: The Frauenkirche from Rampischegasse; View in a Garden, Probably That North of the Zwinger; English and German Phrases 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Dresden: The Frauenkirche from Rampischegasse; View in a Garden, Probably That North of the Zwinger; English and German Phrases’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
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Dresden: The Frauenkirche from Rampischegasse; View in a Garden, Probably That North of the Zwinger; English and German Phrases 1835
D31025
Turner Bequest CCCVII 3 a
Pencil on cream laid paper, 162 x 89 mm
Watermark ‘cfw & s’
Inscribed in pencil by Turner and another with English and German phrases (transcribed in full in main entry)
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Here Turner has inscribed phrases and vocabulary in English which have been translated into German by another hand (see also Tate D31029–D31024, D31026; Turner Bequest CCCVII 1–3, 4). The notes are transcribed:
‘To make
Machen
Buy
Kaufen
Sell
Verkaufen
Lost
Verloren
My Bill to pay
Meine rechnung zu bezahlen
How much
Wie viel
all
alles
Altogether
allzusammen’
Sketches of Dresden’s Frauenkirche and gardens of the Zwinger Palace are also rendered on the page.

Alice Rylance-Watson
May 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Dresden: The Frauenkirche from Rampischegasse; View in a Garden, Probably That North of the Zwinger; English and German Phrases 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-the-frauenkirche-from-rampischegasse-view-in-a-r1186968, accessed 10 May 2024.