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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Distant View of Teplitz 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Distant View of Teplitz’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 20 Recto:
Distant View of Teplitz 1835
D30334
Turner Bequest CCCI 20
Pencil on cream wove paper, 100 x 159 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘[...]’ right descending
Inscribed in red ink by Ruskin ‘20’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCCI – 20’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is a distant view of the Bohemian town of Teplitz, taken from a road in the surrounding hillside. Teplitz, now known as Teplice, is located in north-western Czech Republic close to the border with Saxony. Turner has inscribed illegible notes at right.
For more sketches of Teplitz see Tate D30315–D30335; Turner Bequest CCCI 10a–20a.

Alice Rylance-Watson
September 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Distant View of 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-distant-view-of-teplitz-r1186718, accessed 22 November 2024.