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 ... > Dresden, Teplitz and Prague Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Teplitz from the North-West with the Buildings of the Schlossplatz in the Foreground (Right) and the Schlossberg in the Distance; Hills and a Standing Woman 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Teplitz from the North-West with the Buildings of the Schlossplatz in the Foreground (Right) and the Schlossberg in the Distance; Hills and a Standing Woman’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 10 Verso:
Teplitz from the North-West with the Buildings of the Schlossplatz in the Foreground (Right) and the Schlossberg in the Distance; Hills and a Standing Woman 1835
D30315
Turner Bequest CCCI 10 a
Pencil on cream wove paper, 100 x 159 mm
Partial Watermark ‘af’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is a view of Teplitz (modern day Teplice in the Czech Republic), a town located in Bohemia near the Saxon border. At the time of Turner’s visit Teplitz was established as a fashionable spa resort: its warm springs, fine baroque buildings and surrounding hillsides were popular among the genteel of Europe. Turner’s prospect encompasses the buildings of the Schlossplatz in the foreground, the church and Schlossberg, a distant mountain crowned by a medieval castle. With the sketchbook turned upright, in accordance with the foliation, Turner has also rendered the figure of a standing woman as well as a band of hills at the uppermost register, which is continued on the folio opposite (Tate D30316; Turner Bequest CCCI 11).
For more sketches of Teplitz see Tate D30316–D30335; Turner Bequest CCCI 11–20a.

Alice Rylance-Watson
September 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Teplitz from the North-West with the Buildings of the Schlossplatz in the Foreground (Right) and the Schlossberg in the Distance; Hills and a Standing Woman 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-teplitz-from-the-north-west-with-the-buildings-of-the-r1186699, accessed 21 November 2024.