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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1830-35 Annual tourist > Northern Germany, the Elbe and Prague ... > Dresden, Teplitz and Prague Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Prague: View across the Vltava from the Belvedere to the Old Town 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Prague: View across the Vltava from the Belvedere to the Old Town’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 25 Verso:
Prague: View across the Vltava from the Belvedere to the Old Town 1835
D30345
Turner Bequest CCCI 25 a
Pencil on cream wove paper, 100 x 159 mm
Partial Watermark ‘cf’
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Rd’ (‘Road’ or ‘Red’), ‘[...] N[...]’ to left
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is a view of the Bohemian capital Prague, taken from an elevated viewpoint at the Belvedere palace near Prague Castle. The spires, towers and domes of the Old Town’s many churches can be seen, among them St Francis’ Church at right and the Old Town Square with St Nicholas’ Church and the Old Town Hall.
Turner produced several sketches of Prague on the 1835 tour; other drawings in this sketchbook can be found at Tate D30344–D30361, D30364–D30366; Turner Bequest CCCI 25–33a, 36–37. The Prague, Nuremberg, Frankfurt and Rhine sketchbook of the same tour holds drawings of the city at Tate D30759–30761, D30764–D30765, D30767, D30771–D30773, D30775–D30777, D30779–D30783, D30788–D30790, D30792–D30803, D30805, D30807–D30811, D30813–D30820; Turner Bequest CCCIV 68–69, 70a–71, 72, 74–75, 76–77, 78–80, 82a–84, 85–91, 92, 93–96, 97–102.

Alice Rylance-Watson
September 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Prague: View across the Vltava from the Belvedere to the Old Town 1835 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 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-prague-view-across-the-vltava-from-the-belvedere-to-the-old-r1186729, accessed 20 September 2024.