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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Ulm: The Einlasstum and Metzgerturm; Ulm: The Town Hall 1833

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Ulm: The Einlasstum and Metzgerturm; Ulm: The Town Hall’ 1833
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 52 Verso:
Ulm: The Einlasstum and Metzgerturm; Ulm: The Town Hall 1833
D29917
Turner Bequest CCXCVIII 52 a
Pencil on off-white lined paper, 165 x 110 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Ulm’ centre, ‘[...]’ centre (inverted)
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
These two views of Ulm orientated inversely to one another show the Einlasstum and Metzgerturm and, beneath it, the Town Hall. For more views of Ulm in this sketchbook see Tate D29907, D29915–D29918, D29932–D29934, D29940–D29946, D29981; Turner Bequest CCXCVIII 47a, 51a–53, 60–61, 64–67, 85.

Alice Rylance-Watson
July 2017

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Ulm: The Einlasstum and Metzgerturm; Ulm: The Town Hall 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-ulm-the-einlasstum-and-metzgerturm-ulm-the-town-hall-r1203177, accessed 22 May 2025.