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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1830-35 Annual tourist > Northern Germany, the Elbe and Prague ... > Prague, Nuremberg, Frankfurt and Rhine ... > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Buildings ?in Germany 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Buildings ?in Germany’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 10 Recto:
Buildings ?in Germany 1835
D30649
Turner Bequest CCCIV 10
Pencil on cream laid paper, 118 x 190 mm
Watermark ‘jh[&z]’
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘N[...]’ bottom, ‘[...]’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CCCIV–10’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is a cursory sketch of an unidentified building or group of buildings, probably in Germany. The same building is depicted on Tate D30656; Turner Bequest CCCIV 13a.
An illegible inscription is at rear.

Alice Rylance-Watson
November 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Buildings ?in Germany 1835 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, November 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-buildings-in-germany-r1187030, accessed 22 November 2024.