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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Schloss Rosenstein, near Stuttgart; The Church at Berg, Looking towards Cannstatt; Gateway 1833

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Schloss Rosenstein, near Stuttgart; The Church at Berg, Looking towards Cannstatt; Gateway’ 1833
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 44 Verso:
Schloss Rosenstein, near Stuttgart; The Church at Berg, Looking towards Cannstatt; Gateway 1833
D29901
Turner Bequest CCXCVIII 44 a
Pencil on off-white lined paper, 165 x 110 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘9’ top right, ‘[...]’ centre towards top right, ‘Weeler Berg’ left centre, ‘[...]’ bottom left (inverted)
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Schloss Rosenstein in Stuttgart is shown in the sketch at the top, inscribed ‘9’ for the number of bays on the palace (see Tate D29899; Turner Bequest CCXCVIII 43a). Below is a view of Berg and Cannstatt, which extends onto the folio opposite (Tate D29902; Turner Bequest CCXCVIII 45). Berg, depicted at left, is situated close to Schloss Rosenstein, before a bend in the Neckar. The spire of the Church at Berg can be seen rising above the rooftops. ‘Weeler Berg’ is inscribed. With the sketchbook turned upside down relative to the foliation Turner has also produced a rough sketch of an elaborate gateway, illegibly inscribed by the artist.

Alice Rylance-Watson
July 2017

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Schloss Rosenstein, near Stuttgart; The Church at Berg, Looking towards Cannstatt; Gateway 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-schloss-rosenstein-near-stuttgart-the-church-at-berg-looking-r1203161, accessed 20 August 2025.