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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Dresden: The Frauenkirche and Neumarkt (its Spire Continued in Three Separate Details); Similar View, from much closer to the Staircase of the Johanneum 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Dresden: The Frauenkirche and Neumarkt (its Spire Continued in Three Separate Details); Similar View, from much closer to the Staircase of the Johanneum’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
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Dresden: The Frauenkirche and Neumarkt (its Spire Continued in Three Separate Details); Similar View, from much closer to the Staircase of the Johanneum 1835
D31029
Turner Bequest CCCVII 5 a
Pencil on cream laid paper, 89 x 162 mm
Watermarked with a beehive surrounded by garlands and bees
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘L[...]’ top centre, ‘S[...]’ bottom left, ‘[...]’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This study of the Frauenkirche at Dresden was taken from Neumarkt, the city’s main market place. It is a baroque reconstruction of an original gothic building, produced to the designs of George Bähr (1666–1738) and completed in 1743.1 Bähr’s vision was to create a church that looked ‘like a single stone from the ground to its highest point’.2 At top right is a similar view of the Frauenkirche, taken closer to the staircase of the Johanneum.
For more sketches of Dresden see Tate D30296–D30303, D30896–D30900, D31024–D31042; Turner Bequest CCCI 1–7, CCCVI 6a–9, CCCVII 3–12.

Alice Rylance-Watson
May 2015

1
‘History’, Frauenkirche Dresden, accessed 7 May 2015, http://www.frauenkirche-dresden.de/en/building/history/
2
Ibid.

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Dresden: The Frauenkirche and Neumarkt (its Spire Continued in Three Separate Details); Similar View, from much closer to the Staircase of the Johanneum 1835 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 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-dresden-the-frauenkirche-and-neumarkt-its-spire-continued-in-r1186902, accessed 17 July 2024.