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Lot Essay
Wyld probably visited Dresden in the late 1840s as he exhibited View near Dresden (morning) at the Liverpool Academy in 1850, no. 326.
His very slightly larger View of Dresden at Sunset is in the Victoria and Albert Museum, M. Pointon, Bonington, Francia and Wyld, London, 1985, no. 29, illustrated in colour between pp. 96 and 97. Notable differences include the treatment of the Church tower which has become less gothic in appearance and in the disposition of the figures. It is taken from a similar view point showing the left bank of the Elbe looking upstream, with the Augustus Bridge, and behind it (from left to right) the Protestant Frauenkirche (destroyed in World War II), the tower and the nave of the Catholic Palace Church, and, screened by trees, the tower of the Dresden Schloss.
His very slightly larger View of Dresden at Sunset is in the Victoria and Albert Museum, M. Pointon, Bonington, Francia and Wyld, London, 1985, no. 29, illustrated in colour between pp. 96 and 97. Notable differences include the treatment of the Church tower which has become less gothic in appearance and in the disposition of the figures. It is taken from a similar view point showing the left bank of the Elbe looking upstream, with the Augustus Bridge, and behind it (from left to right) the Protestant Frauenkirche (destroyed in World War II), the tower and the nave of the Catholic Palace Church, and, screened by trees, the tower of the Dresden Schloss.