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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Stuttgart: The Stiftskirche and Altes Schloss from the Karlsplatz 1833

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Stuttgart: The Stiftskirche and Altes Schloss from the Karlsplatz’ 1833
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 39 Recto:
Stuttgart: The Stiftskirche and Altes Schloss from the Karlsplatz 1833
D29890
Turner Bequest CCXCVIII 39
Pencil on off-white lined paper, 110 x 165 mm
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘39’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CCXCVIII 39’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This view of Stuttgart was taken from Karlsplatz and shows the Altes Schloss or Old Castle at centre with the two towers of the Stiftskirche at left. The Altes Schloss was originally the residence of the Dukes and Kings of Württemberg; it stands adjacent to the Nueues Schloss or New Castle, a baroque palace built in the eighteenth century as its replacement.
For more views of Stuttgart see Tate D29883, D29887–D29894, D29896, D29903–D29904, D29906; Turner Bequest CCXCVIII 35a, 37a–41, 41, 45a–46, 47.

Alice Rylance-Watson
July 2017

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Stuttgart: The Stiftskirche and Altes Schloss from the Karlsplatz 1833 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, July 2017, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, March 2023, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-stuttgart-the-stiftskirche-and-altes-schloss-from-the-r1203150, accessed 25 April 2025.