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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Prague: Hradcany and the Little Quarter from the Petrín Hill 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Prague: Hradcany and the Little Quarter from the Petrín Hill’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 32 Verso:
Prague: Hradcany and the Little Quarter from the Petrín Hill 1835
D30359
Turner Bequest CCCI 32 a
Pencil on cream wove paper, 100 x 159 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This cursory sketch shows Prague’s Hradcany district at left, with the exterior walls of Prague Castle and the tower of St Vitus Cathedral rendered in slight outline. At the foot of the gradient lies the city’s Lesser or Little Quarter with the domed Church of St Nicholas at right.
Other drawings of Prague can be found at Tate D30344–D30361, D30364–D30366; Turner Bequest CCCI 25–33a, 36–37. The Prague, Nuremberg, Frankfurt and Rhine sketchbook of the same tour holds drawings of the city at Tate D30759–30761, D30764–D30765, D30767, D30771–D30773, D30775–D30777, D30779–D30783, D30788–D30790, D30792–D30803, D30805, D30807–D30811, D30813–D30820; Turner Bequest CCCIV 68–69, 70a–71, 72, 74–75, 76–77, 78–80, 82a–84, 85–91, 92, 93–96, 97–102.

Alice Rylance-Watson
September 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Prague: Hradcany and the Little Quarter from the Petrín Hill 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-prague-hradcany-and-the-little-quarter-from-the-petrin-hill-r1186743, accessed 25 November 2024.