Joseph Mallord William Turner

Bamberg Cathedral and the Alte Hofhaltung from the Domplatz

1840

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Artist: Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of: Venice; Passau to Würzburg Sketchbook
Medium: Graphite on paper
Dimensions: Support: 126 × 198 mm
Collection: Tate
Acquisition: Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference: D31331
Turner Bequest CCCX 28 a

Catalogue entry

The drawing was made with the page turned horizontally. As identified by Cecilia Powell,1 the view is towards the southern corner of Bamberg’s sloping Domplatz, flanked by the Romanesque Cathedral and the picturesquely gabled Renaissance Alte Hofhaltung (now a museum). It is notable that Turner lightly indicated the second of the Romanesque spires on the left, but only one of the similarly proportioned but more elaborate Gothic spires towards the right.

For numerous other Bamberg views in this sketchbook, see under folio 19 recto (D31312).2

Matthew Imms
September 2018

1

See Powell 1995, p.243.

2

See also Powell 1995, pp.71, 82 note 58.

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