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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Frankfurt: View along the Main Quay Showing the Saalhof, Cathedral and Rententurm 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Frankfurt: View along the Main Quay Showing the Saalhof, Cathedral and Rententurm’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 39 Recto
Frankfurt: View along the Main Quay Showing the Saalhof, Cathedral and Rententurm 1835
D30704
Turner Bequest CCCIV 39
Pencil on cream laid paper, 118 x 190 mm
Watermark ‘[jan] honig [& zonen]’
Inscribed in black ink ‘39’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCCIV–39’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is a view of the River Main at Frankfurt, with the Old Bridge at right and a few boats moored in the foreground. Part of the Old Town overlooking the waterway is shown, with medieval buildings including the Saalhof Palace and the Rententurm rendered in faint line. To the left of the Rententurm, in the distance, is Frankfurt Cathedral.

For more drawings of the city 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: View along the Main Quay Showing the Saalhof, Cathedral and Rententurm 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-view-along-the-main-quay-showing-the-saalhof-r1187080, accessed 24 June 2025.