Frankfurt: View across the Main to the Cathedral with the Bridge on the Right (with Continuation in Sky)

1835

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Artist: Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of: Prague, Nuremberg, Frankfurt and Rhine Sketchbook
Medium: Graphite on paper
Dimensions: Support: 118 x 190 mm
Collection: Tate
Acquisition: Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference: D30688
Turner Bequest CCCIV 31

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This slight sketch shows a view across the River Main at Frankfurt, Germany. Turner pictures the Alte Brücke (Old Bridge) at right and the tower of the Cathedral in the distance at left. The bridge is continued in the sky at top right.

For more sketches of Frankfurt see Tate D30678–D30679, D30684–D30698, D30700–D30705; Turner Bequest CCCIV 26–26a, 29–36, 37–39a.

Alice Rylance-Watson
December 2015

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Joseph Mallord William Turner

Frankfurt: View across the Main to the Cathedral with the Bridge on the Right (with Continuation in Sky)

1835

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Frankfurt: View across the Main with the Leonardskirche, Rententurm, Katharinenkirche and Nikolaikirche; Houses on the Maininsel; The Cathedral and Bridge from across the Main

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Frankfurt: View up the Main to the Cathedral, Bridge, Maininsel and Sachsenhausen (Shown in a Separate Instalment)

Joseph Mallord William Turner Frankfurt: The Bridge and Maininsel, Looking Downstream to the Cathedral (in Two Instalments)

Joseph Mallord William Turner Frankfurt: The Bridge and Maininsel, Looking Downstream to the Cathedral (in Two Instalments)

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