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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Munich: The Isartor with the Frauenkirche, Peterskirche and Heiliggesitkirche in the Background; Buildings 1833

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Munich: The Isartor with the Frauenkirche, Peterskirche and Heiliggesitkirche in the Background; Buildings’ 1833
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 63 Verso:
Munich: The Isartor with the Frauenkirche, Peterskirche and Heiliggesitkirche in the Background; Buildings 1833
D29939
Turner Bequest CCXCVIII 63 a
Pencil on off-white lined paper, 110 x 165 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The principal sketch shows Munich from the Isartor, a medieval city gate situated to the east of the old town and close to the Isar. In the background the Frauenkirche, Peterskirche and Heiliggesitkirche can be seen at left, centre and right respectively.
Turner has also made a rough sketch of buildings, possibly at Ulm (see Tate D29940; Turner Bequest CCXCVIII 64), to the left of the Munich view.
For more views of Munich see Tate D29920–D29929, D29931, D29939, D29947, D29955–D29963, D29971, D29974, D29976; Turner Bequest CCXCVIII 54–58a, 59a, 63a, 67a, 71a–75a, 79a, 81, 82.

Alice Rylance-Watson
July 2017

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Munich: The Isartor with the Frauenkirche, Peterskirche and Heiliggesitkirche in the Background; Buildings 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-munich-the-isartor-with-the-frauenkirche-peterskirche-and-r1203199, accessed 05 April 2026.