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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Prague: Hradcany, St Nicholas's Church and the Little Quarter from the South-West 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Prague: Hradcany, St Nicholas's Church and the Little Quarter from the South-West’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 80 Recto:
Prague: Hradcany, St Nicholas's Church and the Little Quarter from the South-West 1835
D30783
Turner Bequest CCCIV 80
Pencil on cream laid paper, 118 x 190 mm
Watermark with the Lion of the Seven Provinces | ‘h[onig]’ | ‘jh[&z]’
Inscribed in red ink by Ruskin ‘80’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCCIV–80’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This study of Prague was taken from a high vantage point on Petrín Hill, looking towards the Hradcany, the imperial Castle and Cathedral of St Vitus. St Nicholas’ Church has also been rendered in the foreground, with the Churches of St Thomas and Our Lady Victorious adjacent. Prague Castle was the residence of the kings of Bohemia and Holy Roman Emperors, and St Vitus their official place of worship.
Turner produced several views of Prague on the 1835 tour. For other drawings in this sketchbook 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. See also the Dresden, Tepliz and Prague sketchbook (Tate D30344–D30361, D30364–D30366; Turner Bequest CCCI 25–33a, 36–37).

Alice Rylance-Watson
December 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Prague: Hradcany, St Nicholas's Church and the Little Quarter from the South-West 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-hradcany-st-nicholass-church-and-the-little-quarter-r1187158, accessed 22 November 2024.