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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Carriage Sketches of Scenery between Teplitz and Prague 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Carriage Sketches of Scenery between Teplitz and Prague’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 22 Verso:
Carriage Sketches of Scenery between Teplitz and Prague 1835
D30339
Turner Bequest CCCI 22 a
Pencil on cream wove paper, 159 x 100 mm
Partial Watermark ‘cf’
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Ries[...]’ top right, ‘Lau[..]’ | ‘Larrn’ top right near centre, ‘[...]’ centre, ‘Larabgh’ | ‘[...]’ centre right towards rear, ‘Launr’ rear centre (inverted)
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
These slight and uneven sketches have been rendered with the sketchbook turned upside down. They were likely dashed off as Turner travelled by carriage from Teplitz to the Bohemian capital Prague. The landscapes are hilly and mountainous, which suggests Turner may have been travelling through the Central Bohemian Uplands.
The artist has inscribed largely illegible notes around each sketch, likely the names of towns or mountains. The notes reading ‘‘Lau[..]’, ‘Larrn’, ‘Larabgh’, and ‘Launr’ clearly refer Laun (now Louny), a town located to the south of Teplitz which Turner depicts on the folio opposite (Tate D30340; Turner Bequest CCCI 23).

Alice Rylance-Watson
September 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Carriage Sketches of Scenery between Teplitz and Prague 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-of-scenery-between-teplitz-and-prague-r1186723, accessed 22 November 2024.