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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Town by a Cliff; Stuttgart from the North-East 1833

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Town by a Cliff; Stuttgart from the North-East’ 1833
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 41 Verso:
Town by a Cliff; Stuttgart from the North-East 1833
D29895
Turner Bequest CCXCVIII 41 a
Pencil on off-white lined paper, 110 x 165 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Leichnstein’ | ‘B[...] [...]’ | ‘Estashy’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
A town by a cliff, possibly around Stuttgart, is depicted in a view at top left.
Stuttgart is shown from the northeast, with the Stiftskirche at centre. ‘Leichnstein’ | ‘B[...] [...]’ | ‘Estashy’ are inscribed with the sketchbook turned in accordance with the foliation. ‘Leichnstein’ may refer to Lichtenstein and the Schloss Lichtenstein, some fifty kilometres south of Stuttgart in Baden-Württemberg.
For more views of Stuttgart see Tate D29887, D29888–D29894, D29896, D29903–D29904, D29906; Turner Bequest CCXCVIII 37a, 38–41, 41, 45a–46, 47.

Alice Rylance-Watson
July 2017

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Town by a Cliff; Stuttgart from the North-East 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-town-by-a-cliff-stuttgart-from-the-north-east-r1203155, accessed 12 May 2025.