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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8

Joseph Mallord William Turner Heidelberg: View down the Neckar from East of the Town 1833

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 21 Verso:
Heidelberg: View down the Neckar from East of the Town 1833
D29855
Turner Bequest CCXCVIII 21 a
Pencil on cream wove paper, 110 x 165 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is a view of Heidelberg from the east, looking down the Neckar with Heidelberg Castle on the slopes at centre, and the town and Church of the Holy Spirit at right. Hills and a path on the Neuenheim side of the Neckar can be seen in the foreground at right.
For more views of Heidelberg in this sketchbook see Tate D29815–D29865; Turner Bequest CCXCVIII 1a–26a. See also Tate D30132; Turner Bequest CCC 2 within the Salzburg and Danube sketchbook of 1833. For sketches of the city taken in 1841 see the Berne, Heidelberg and Rhine sketchbook (Tate D32957–D32962, D32966; Turner Bequest CCCXXVI 39a–42, 44). For sketches taken during the1844 tour of Heidelberg and the Neckar, see the Spires and Heidelberg sketchbook (Tate D29783, D29795, D29796, D29799, D29801–D29807; Turner Bequest CCXCVII 6a, 12a, 13, 14a, 15a–19); the On the Neckar sketchbook (Tate D30394, D30456; Turner Bequest CCII 12a, 43a); and the Heidelberg sketchbook (Tate D35223, D35224, D35228, D35229, D35231–D35233, D35235, D35237, D35238; Turner Bequest CCCLII 4a, 5, 8, 9, 11–13, 15, 17, 18). Loose colour studies, paintings and engravings of Heidelberg in the Tate collection include D36183, D36325; Turner Bequest CCCLXVI 325, CCCLXV 34, Tate N00518 and Tate impression T05190.

Alice Rylance-Watson
May 2017

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Heidelberg: View down the Neckar from East of the Town 1833 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 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-heidelberg-view-down-the-neckar-from-east-of-the-town-r1203115, accessed 16 July 2025.