J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Pirna: The Fortress of Sonnenstein 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Pirna: The Fortress of Sonnenstein’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 22 Verso:
Pirna: The Fortress of Sonnenstein 1835
D30927
Turner Bequest CCCVI 22 a
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 104 x 170 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is a sketch of the Schloss Sonnenstein, a medieval fortress located in Pirna, Saxony. For more sketches of Pirna see Tate D30919–D30928, D30930, D31011; Turner Bequest CCCVI 18a–23, 24, 64a.

Alice Rylance-Watson
August 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Pirna: The Fortress of Sonnenstein 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-pirna-the-fortress-of-sonnenstein-r1186799, accessed 26 June 2024.