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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Artist: Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of: Prague, Nuremberg, Frankfurt and Rhine Sketchbook
Medium: Graphite on paper
Dimensions: Support: 118 × 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

Joseph Mallord William Turner Frankfurt; View across the Main to the Cathedral

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)

Joseph Mallord William Turner Frankfurt: View along the Main Quay Showing the Saalhof, Cathedral and Rententurm

Joseph Mallord William Turner Frankfurt: View across the Main with the Bridge, Deutschherrnhaus and Sachsenhausen (in Two Instalments)

Joseph Mallord William Turner Frankfurt: View up the Main to the Rententurm and Bridge

Joseph Mallord William Turner Würzburg, with the Alte Mainbrücke over the River Main, Marienkapelle, Rathaus, Neumünster and Cathedral from the Hillside above St Burkard’s Church

Joseph Mallord William Turner Frankfurt: View up the Main Quay to the Rententurm, with the Cathedral Seen above Houses

Joseph Mallord William Turner Salzburg: View down the Salzach to the Fortress, Cathedral, Bridge and Kapuzinerberg (Continued in Sky)

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Frankfurt: The Cathedral from the South; Düsseldorf from the Rhine

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