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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Frankfurt: The Katharinenkirche, Houses and Trees 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Frankfurt: The Katharinenkirche, Houses and Trees’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 32 Verso:
Frankfurt: The Katharinenkirche, Houses and Trees 1835
D30691
Turner Bequest CCCIV 32 a
Pencil on cream laid paper, 118 x 190 mm
Watermark with the Lion of the Seven Provinces | ‘[jan] honig [& zonen]’ | ‘[jh]&z’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This rough sketch shows a street in Frankfurt, Germany, with the baroque tower of St Katharine’s Church (Katharinenkirche) at centre. For more drawings of Frankfurt see Tate D30678–D30679, D30684–D30698, D30700–D30705; Turner Bequest CCCIV 26–26a, 29–36, 37–39a.
Part of Frankfurt Cathedral’s tower appears at rear, continued from the folio opposite (Tate D30692; Turner Bequest CCCIV 33).

Alice Rylance-Watson
December 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Frankfurt: The Katharinenkirche, Houses and Trees 1835 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, December 2015, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, August 2017, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-frankfurt-the-katharinenkirche-houses-and-trees-r1187067, accessed 12 May 2025.