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Dresden and Saxon Switzerland Sketchbook
Dresden and Saxon Switzerland Sketchbook
Northern Germany, the Elbe and Prague 1835
Northern Germany, the Elbe and Prague 1835
Germany
Tate Collection
Works with images
Joseph Mallord William Turner
Turner Bequest
Dresden and Saxon Switzerland Sketchbook
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Catalogued Turner works on paper
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Rocks Bastei and its Bridge Looking Southwards
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
architecture
Bastei
bridge
bridges and viaducts
countries and continents
Germany
hill
landscape
natural features (non-UK)
places
rocky
<p>Turner acquired this sketchbook in Dresden just before his tour of Saxon Switzerland, a region of huge, curiously shaped fingers and cliffs of grey sandstone formed by millennia of erosion. This had become a favoured destination of artists and tourists in the late eighteenth century when it was given its name by two Swiss painters working in the Saxon capital. Turner probably spent three days in this area, arriving back in Dresden on 24 September. The Bastei consists of an astonishing group of giant pinnacles overlooking the Elbe just south of Dresden, linked by a high bridge which provides an experience as thrilling as any 'devil's bridge' in Switzerland itself.</p><p><em>Gallery label, April 1995</em></p>
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The Rocks of the Bastei and its Bridge, Looking Southwards
support: 104 × 170 mm
Accepted by the nation as part of the <a href="/search?gid=999999781" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Turner Bequest</a> 1856
<p>Turner acquired this sketchbook in Dresden just before his tour of Saxon Switzerland, a region of huge, curiously shaped fingers and cliffs of grey sandstone formed by millennia of erosion. This had become a favoured destination of artists and tourists in the late eighteenth century when it was given its name by two Swiss painters working in the Saxon capital. Turner probably spent three days in this area, arriving back in Dresden on 24 September. The Bastei consists of an astonishing group of giant pinnacles overlooking the Elbe just south of Dresden, linked by a high bridge which provides an experience as thrilling as any 'devil's bridge' in Switzerland itself.</p>
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architecture Bastei bridge bridges and viaducts countries and continents Germany hill landscape natural features (non-UK) places rocky
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