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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Teplitz: View up to the Schlossberg and Distant Hills, with a Larger Version of the Schloss Itself 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Teplitz: View up to the Schlossberg and Distant Hills, with a Larger Version of the Schloss Itself’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 15 Recto:
Teplitz: View up to the Schlossberg and Distant Hills, with a Larger Version of the Schloss Itself 1835
D30324
Turner Bequest CCCI 15
Pencil on cream wove paper, 100 x 159 mm
Inscribed in red ink by Ruskin ‘15’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCCI – 15’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Here Turner has rendered two views of the medieval Schlossberg, a fortification on the crest of a hill overlooking Teplitz (modern day Teplice in the Czech Republic).
For more sketches of the town see Tate D30315–D30335; Turner Bequest CCCI 10a–20a.

Alice Rylance-Watson
September 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Teplitz: View up to the Schlossberg and Distant Hills, with a Larger Version of the Schloss Itself 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-view-up-to-the-schlossberg-and-distant-hills-with-a-r1186708, accessed 21 November 2024.