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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The Deutschhauskirche, Würzburg, from Zellerstrasse 1840

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Deutschhauskirche, Würzburg, from Zellerstrasse’ 1840
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 84 Verso:
The Deutschhauskirche, Würzburg, from Zellerstrasse 1840
D30621
Turner Bequest CCCIII 83a
Pencil on flecked pale blue laid paper, 170 x 104 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, the Baroque tower and about half the south side of the Gothic nave of the Deutschhauskirche are seen from Zellerstrasse, as Cecilia Powell recognised.1 The street leads north-west from Würzburg’s Alte Mainbrücke; this prospect is now partly obscured by trees. Turner has shaded the archway to the lane leading directly under the church.
For the extensive sequence of Würzburg views in this sketchbook and others elsewhere, see under folio 72 verso (D30596; CCCIII 71).

Matthew Imms
September 2018

1
See Powell 1995, p.245.

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘The Deutschhauskirche, Würzburg, from Zellerstrasse 1840 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 2018, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2019, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-the-deutschhauskirche-wurzburg-from-zellerstrasse-r1196377, accessed 02 August 2025.