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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Carriage Sketches ?Taken on the Road to Teplitz 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Carriage Sketches ?Taken on the Road to Teplitz’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 8 Verso:
Carriage Sketches ?Taken on the Road to Teplitz 1835
D30311
Turner Bequest CCCI 8 a
Pencil on cream wove paper, 159 x 100 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Hellendorf’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
These rough sketches of hills were likely taken as Turner travelled by carriage from Dresden to Teplitz (now Teplice in modern day Czech Republic). The inscription ‘Hellendorf’ refers to the site of the Saxon Customs House, according to Cecilia Powell.1

Alice Rylance-Watson
September 2015

1
Powell 1995, p.58 note 106 [p.80].

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Carriage Sketches ?Taken on the Road to Teplitz 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-carriage-sketches-taken-on-the-road-to-teplitz-r1186695, accessed 21 November 2024.