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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Heidelberg: The Castle, Bridge and Heiliggeistkirche from across the Neckar 1833

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Heidelberg: The Castle, Bridge and Heiliggeistkirche from across the Neckar’ 1833
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 2 Recto:
Heidelberg: The Castle, Bridge and Heiliggeistkirche from across the Neckar 1833
D30132
Turner Bequest CCC 2
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 99 x 159 mm
Remains of inscription in red ink by Ruskin ‘2’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCC–2’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This study of Heidelberg, Germany, was taken from the Old Bridge looking towards the Heiliggeistkirche at right and the Castle in the distance.
For more views of Heidelberg from the 1833 tour see the Heidelberg up to Salzburg sketchbook (Tate D29815–D29865; Turner Bequest CCXCVIII 1a–26a). For sketches of the city taken in 1841 see the Berne, Heidelberg and Rhine sketchbook (Tate D32957–D32962, D32966; Turner Bequest CCCXXVI 39a–42, 44). For sketches taken during the1844 tour of Heidelberg and the Neckar, see the Spires and Heidelberg sketchbook (Tate D29783, D29795, D29796, D29799, D29801–D29807; Turner Bequest CCXCVII 6a, 12a, 13, 14a, 15a–19); the On the Neckar sketchbook (Tate D30394, D30456; Turner Bequest CCII 12a, 43a); and the Heidelberg sketchbook (Tate D35223, D35224, D35228, D35229, D35231–D35233, D35235, D35237, D35238; Turner Bequest CCCLII 4a, 5, 8, 9, 11–13, 15, 17, 18). Loose colour studies, paintings and engravings of Heidelberg in the Tate collection include D36183, D36325; Turner Bequest CCCLXVI 325, CCCLXV 34, Tate N00518 and Tate impression T05190.

Alice Rylance-Watson
August 2017

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Heidelberg: The Castle, Bridge and Heiliggeistkirche from across the Neckar 1833 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, August 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-castle-bridge-and-heiliggeistkirche-from-r1203265, accessed 30 June 2024.