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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Prague Old Town 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Prague Old Town’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 89 Verso:
Prague Old Town 1835
D30801
Turner Bequest CCCIV 89 a
Pencil on cream laid paper, 190 x 118 mm
Watermark with the Lion of the Seven Provinces | ‘h[onig]’ | ‘jh[&z]’
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Pr[...]’ bottom left.
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This rough sketch may show Prague’s Old Town Bridge Tower or the tower of the Old Town Hall. It is inscribed ‘Pr[...]’ at bottom left.

Alice Rylance-Watson
December 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Prague Old Town 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-old-town-r1187176, accessed 27 September 2024.