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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Frankfurt: The Cathedral Seen from a Narrow Street 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Frankfurt: The Cathedral Seen from a Narrow Street’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 30 Verso:
Frankfurt: The Cathedral Seen from a Narrow Street 1835
D30686
Turner Bequest CCCIV 30
Pencil on cream laid paper, 190 x 118 mm
Watermark ‘[jan honig & z]onen’
Inscribed in red ink by Ruskin ‘30’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCCIV–30’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Here Turner pictures the tower of Frankfurt Cathedral from a vantage point on one of the narrow streets leading off Römerberg Square. For more sketches of Frankfurt see Tate D30678–D30679, D30684–D30698, D30700–D30705; Turner Bequest CCCIV 26–26a, 29–36, 37–39a.
Recto:
Blank.

Alice Rylance-Watson
December 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Frankfurt: The Cathedral Seen from a Narrow Street 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-frankfurt-the-cathedral-seen-from-a-narrow-street-r1187063, accessed 19 April 2024.