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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Nuremberg: Houses on the North Side of Karolinenstrasse Including the Herdegenhaus 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Nuremberg: Houses on the North Side of Karolinenstrasse Including the Herdegenhaus’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 55 Recto:
Nuremberg: Houses on the North Side of Karolinenstrasse Including the Herdegenhaus 1835
D30734
Turner Bequest CCCIV 55
Pencil on cream laid paper, 118 x 190 mm
Watermark ‘Zo’
Inscribed in red ink by Ruskin ‘55’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCCIV–55’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is an unfinished view of a parade of houses on the Karolinenstrasse in Nuremberg, Germany. Two women are pictured in the foreground, one carrying a basket on her back. Turner has rendered the architecture with attention, depicting the stepped gable and elaborately decorated façade of the Herdegenhaus at left.
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: Houses on the North Side of Karolinenstrasse Including the Herdegenhaus 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-houses-on-the-north-side-of-karolinenstrasse-r1187109, accessed 25 April 2024.