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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Nuremberg: View from the Trödelmarkt Looking West to the Henkersteg and its Towers 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Nuremberg: View from the Trödelmarkt Looking West to the Henkersteg and its Towers’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 57 Verso:
Nuremberg: View from the Trödelmarkt Looking West to the Henkersteg and its Towers 1835
D30739
Turner Bequest CCCIV 57 a
Pencil on cream laid paper, 118 x 190 mm
Watermark ‘[H]onig’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This sketch was taken on Nuremberg’s Trödelmarkt Island, a tiny river island which lies just beyond the Maxbrücke on the Pegnitz River. Trödelmarkt Island is named after the flea markets which have taken place there since medieval times. From this vantage point Turner could see the Henkersteg Bridge, with the Wasserturm (water tower) and Henkerturm (Hangman’s Tower).
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: View from the Trödelmarkt Looking West to the Henkersteg and its Towers 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-view-from-the-trodelmarkt-looking-west-to-the-r1187114, accessed 31 October 2025.