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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Munich: The Sendlinger Tor; Landscape; Munich: The Karlstor 1833

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Munich: The Sendlinger Tor; Landscape; Munich: The Karlstor’ 1833
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 59 Verso:
Munich: The Sendlinger Tor; Landscape; Munich: The Karlstor 1833
D29931
Turner Bequest CCXCVIII 59 a
Pencil on off-white lined paper, 110 x 165 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Munck’ top right; ‘Carle Thor MK’ left centre (inverted)
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The Sendlinger Tor, a medieval city gate on the southern end of Munich’s Sendlingerstrasse, is depicted in the sketch at top right inscribed ‘Munck’. Parallel to the gutter of the sketchbook are two sketches rendered inversely to the view of the Sendlinger Tor. A hilly landscape is at left and the Karlstor, also part of Munich’s medieval fortifications, is at right. ‘Carle Thor MK’ is inscribed.
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 Sendlinger Tor; Landscape; Munich: The Karlstor 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-sendlinger-tor-landscape-munich-the-karlstor-r1203191, accessed 12 August 2025.