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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Frankfurt: Two Sketches of the Cathedral, Glimpsed between Houses 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Frankfurt: Two Sketches of the Cathedral, Glimpsed between Houses’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 35 Recto:
Frankfurt: Two Sketches of the Cathedral, Glimpsed between Houses 1835
D30696
Turner Bequest CCCIV 35
Pencil on cream laid paper, 190 x 118 mm
Watermark ‘jh[&z]’
Stamped in black ‘CCCIV–35’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Here Turner has rendered two sketches of Frankfurt Cathedral, a building used for centuries as the election and coronation church for Holy Roman Emperors (see also Tate D30697; Turner Bequest CCCIV 35a).
For more drawings of Frankfurt see Tate D30678–D30679, D30684–D30698, D30700–D30705; Turner Bequest CCCIV 26–26a, 29–36, 37–39a.

Alice Rylance-Watson
December 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Frankfurt: Two Sketches of the Cathedral, Glimpsed between Houses 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-two-sketches-of-the-cathedral-glimpsed-between-r1187072, accessed 25 July 2025.