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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1830-35 Annual tourist > Northern Germany, the Elbe and Prague ... > Prague, Nuremberg, Frankfurt and Rhine ... > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Nuremberg: The Kaiserstallung and its Towers from the Vestnertorgraben, with the Burg on the Right 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Nuremberg: The Kaiserstallung and its Towers from the Vestnertorgraben, with the Burg on the Right’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 50 Recto:
Nuremberg: The Kaiserstallung and its Towers from the Vestnertorgraben, with the Burg on the Right 1835
D30725
Turner Bequest CCCIV 50
Pencil on cream laid paper, 118 x 190 mm
Watermark with the Lion of the Seven Provinces
Inscribed in red ink by Ruskin ‘50’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCCIV–50’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Here Turner depicts the imperial city at Nuremberg, Germany. Built on a high sandstone rock overlooking Nuremberg, this complex of buildings was the residence of Holy Roman Emperors, the Kings of Germany and their court. Turner pictures the site from the northern Vestnertorgraben, a section of the medieval wall which circuited the city. From left to right can be seen Luginsland Tower, the Kaiserstallung, Sinwell Tower and the Heidenturm (‘Heathen’s Tower’).
For more views of Nuremberg see Tate D30707–D30711, D30713, D30715–D30718, D30720–D30726, D30729–D30730; Turner Bequest CCCIV 40a–42a, 44, 45–46a, 47a–50a, 52–52a.

Alice Rylance-Watson
December 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Nuremberg: The Kaiserstallung and its Towers from the Vestnertorgraben, with the Burg on the Right 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-nuremberg-the-kaiserstallung-and-its-towers-from-the-r1187100, accessed 19 April 2024.