J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Distant View of Ulm; Buildings; Woman at a Window 1833

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Distant View of Ulm; Buildings; Woman at a Window’ 1833
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 85 Recto:
Distant View of Ulm; Buildings; Woman at a Window 1833
D29981
Turner Bequest CCXCVIII 85
Pencil on off-white lined paper, 110 x 165 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Ulm’ centre right, ‘Berkheim’ bottom left; ‘10 M[...] 2 Florins, 60 [...] (‘42’ is inscribed beneath 60), 1 52’
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘85’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CCXCVIII 85’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
A distant view of Ulm (inscribed) is at centre (see Tate D29907, D29915–D29918, D29932–D29934, D29940–D29946; Turner Bequest CCXCVIII 47a, 51a–53, 60–61, 64–67), with a squared-off view of a town inscribed ‘Berkheim’ at bottom left. The village of Berkheim in Baden-Württemberg is some thirty miles south of Ulm. At the top of the page Turner has inscribed a series of numbers relating to currency and possibly distances:
‘10 M[...] 2 Florins, 60 [...]
52’
The artist has also drawn a woman at a window, parallel to the gutter of the sketchbook and inversely relative to the other sketches.

Alice Rylance-Watson
July 2017

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Distant View of Ulm; Buildings; Woman at a Window 1833 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, July 2017, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, March 2023, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-distant-view-of-ulm-buildings-woman-at-a-window-r1203241, accessed 16 May 2025.