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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Heidelberg: The Bridge and Heiliggeistkirche (in Two Instalments) 1833

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Heidelberg: The Bridge and Heiliggeistkirche (in Two Instalments)’ 1833
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 14 Verso:
Heidelberg: The Bridge and Heiliggeistkirche (in Two Instalments) 1833
D29841
Turner Bequest CCXCVIII 14 a
Pencil on cream wove paper, 110 x 165 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘13’ centre towards right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This study of Heidelberg is part of a two-page prospect continued from the folio opposite (Tate D29840; Turner Bequest CCXCVIII 14). Taken from Neuenheim, the view depicted here shows the bridge over the Neckar with its gate towers, part of Heidelberg Castle at top left, and the Church of the Holy Spirit (Heiliggeistkirche) at right. Further buildings to the west of the Heiliggeistkirche are rendered parallel to the gutter of the sketchbook (these sketches extend slightly onto the folio opposite, Tate D29842; Turner Bequest CCXCVIII 15). Turner consulted this view and Tate D29843; Turner Bequest CCXCVIII 15a to produce a finished watercolour design engraved and published in 1846 for Thomas Abel Prior as Heidelberg from the Opposite Bank of the Neckar (Tate impression T05190).

Alice Rylance-Watson
May 2017

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Heidelberg: The Bridge and Heiliggeistkirche (in Two Instalments) 1833 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 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-heidelberg-the-bridge-and-heiliggeistkirche-in-two-r1203101, accessed 06 January 2025.