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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Dresden: The Frauenkirche 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Dresden: The Frauenkirche’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 1 Verso:
Dresden: The Frauenkirche 1835
D30297
Turner Bequest CCCI 1 a
Pencil on cream wove paper, 100 x 159 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is a sketch of Dresden, the capital of Saxony. Turner shows the Frauenkirche (Church of Our Lady) from a vantage point on the Neumarkt in the city centre.
For more sketches of Dresden see Tate D30296–D30308, D30896–D30900, D31013, D31024–D31042; Turner Bequest CCCI 1–7, CCCVI 6a–9, 65a, CCCVII 3–12.

Alice Rylance-Watson
September 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Dresden: The Frauenkirche 1835 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 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-r1186681, accessed 21 November 2024.