Joseph Mallord William Turner

Nuremberg: The Burg and Sinwellturm from the Northern End of Burgstrasse

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: D30729
Turner Bequest CCCIV 52

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Here Turner depicts the imperial castle at Nuremberg, from a vantage point on the northern end of the Burgstrasse. Sinwell Tower, the Kaiserstellung and Luginsland Tower can be seen from centre to right.

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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner

Nuremberg: The Burg and Sinwellturm from the Northern End of Burgstrasse

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Nuremberg: The Burg and Tiergärtnertor from the North-West (the Northern End of the Neutorgraben)

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Nuremberg: The Burg and Neutor from the Neutorgraben

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Nuremberg: The Dürer House, Tiergärtnertor and Burg from Albrecht-Dürer-Strasse

Joseph Mallord William Turner Nuremberg: The Burg and Neutor from the Neutorgraben; The Königstor from Königstrasse

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The Hauptmarkt, Nuremberg, with the Schöner Brunnen Fountain, and St Sebaldus’s Church, the Town Hall and the Burg Beyond; the Giechburg and Gügel, near Schesslitz

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