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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Prague: Distant View 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Prague: Distant View’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 82 Verso:
Prague: Distant View 1835
D30788
Turner Bequest CCCIV 82 a
Pencil on cream laid paper, 118 x 190 mm
Watermark ‘zo’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This rough sketch shows the distant profile of Prague, the capital of Bohemia known as ‘the city of a thousand spires’.
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: Distant View 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-distant-view-r1187163, accessed 27 September 2024.