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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Nuremberg: The Apse of St Sebaldus and the Town Hall from the North-West Corner of the Hauptmarkt, with the Burg in the Distance 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Nuremberg: The Apse of St Sebaldus and the Town Hall from the North-West Corner of the Hauptmarkt, with the Burg in the Distance’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 52 Verso:
Nuremberg: The Apse of St Sebaldus and the Town Hall from the North-West Corner of the Hauptmarkt, with the Burg in the Distance 1835
D30730
Turner Bequest CCCIV 52 a
Pencil on cream laid paper, 118 x 190 mm
Watermark with the Lion of the Seven Provinces | ‘honig’ | ‘[jh]&z’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is a view of the Hauptmarkt, a main square in Nuremberg, Bavaria. Turner has gone to some lengths to reproduce the gothic apse of St Sebaldus’ Church at left, as well as drawing in lines of perspective and the architectural features of Nuremberg’s Town Hall at right. A figure driving a horse-drawn cart can be seen in the foreground.
For more views of Nuremberg see Tate D30707–D30711, D30713, D30715–D30718, D30720–D30726, D30729–D30730; Turner Bequest CCCIV 40a–42a, 44, 45–46a, 47a–50a, 52–52a.

Alice Rylance-Watson
December 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Nuremberg: The Apse of St Sebaldus and the Town Hall from the North-West Corner of the Hauptmarkt, with the Burg in the Distance 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-nuremberg-the-apse-of-st-sebaldus-and-the-town-hall-from-the-r1187105, accessed 07 May 2025.