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 Sketches of a Town with a Domed Church 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Sketches of a Town with a Domed Church’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 88 Verso:
Sketches of a Town with a Domed Church 1835
D30799
Turner Bequest CCCIV 88 a
Pencil on cream laid paper, 190 x 118 mm
Watermark ‘[jan honig] & | zonen’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
These rough jottings may depict aspects of Prague, with the domed church of St Francis overlooking the Vltava River. Some of the views extend onto the folio opposite (Tate D30800; Turner Bequest CCCIV 89).
Turner produced several views of Prague on the 1835 tour. For other drawings in this sketchbook Tate D30759–30761, D30764–D30765, D30767, D30771–D30773, D30775–D30777, D30779–D30783, D30788–D30790, D30792–D30803, D30805, D30807–D30811, D30813–D30820; Turner Bequest CCCIV 68–69, 70a–71, 72, 74–75, 76–77, 78–80, 82a–84, 85–91, 92, 93–96, 97–102. See also the Dresden, Tepliz and Prague sketchbook (Tate D30344–D30361, D30364–D30366; Turner Bequest CCCI 25–33a, 36–37).

Alice Rylance-Watson
December 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Sketches of a Town with a Domed Church 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-sketches-of-a-town-with-a-domed-church-r1187174, accessed 24 April 2024.