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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Prague Cathedral; Sketches of Towers 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Prague Cathedral; Sketches of Towers’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 70 Verso:
Prague Cathedral; Sketches of Towers 1835
D30764
Turner Bequest CCCIV 70 a
Pencil on cream laid paper, 190 x 118 mm
Watermark ‘[h]onig’
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘D[...]’ top right; ‘[M...y]’ bottom left
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Prague’s imperial Cathedral of St Vitus is rendered in a cursory jotting at centre, produced with the sketchbook turned upside down (see Tate D30765; Turner Bequest CCCIV 71). The ruined tower above and below are unidentified but inscribed ‘D[...]’ and ‘[M...y]’. Turner has sketched the same tower again on the folio opposite (Turner Bequest CCCIV 71).

Alice Rylance-Watson
December 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Prague Cathedral; Sketches of Towers 1835 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, December 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-prague-cathedral-sketches-of-towers-r1187139, accessed 27 September 2024.