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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Munich: The Town Hall, with the Frauenkirche beyond; Buildings, Probably at Munich 1833

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Munich: The Town Hall, with the Frauenkirche beyond; Buildings, Probably at Munich’ 1833
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 75 Verso:
Munich: The Town Hall, with the Frauenkirche beyond; Buildings, Probably at Munich 1833
D29963
Turner Bequest CCXCVIII 75 a
Pencil on off-white lined paper, 165 x 110 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The uppermost view shows the clocktower of the old Town Hall in the centre of Munich’s Aldstadt, with the twin-towers of the Frauenkirche beyond. Below is a view of buildings probably at Munich, including a church tower and a carriage in the foreground.
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 Town Hall, with the Frauenkirche beyond; Buildings, Probably at Munich 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-town-hall-with-the-frauenkirche-beyond-buildings-r1203223, accessed 01 April 2026.