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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Prague: The Castle and Cathedral from the Slopes of the Castle Hill 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Prague: The Castle and Cathedral from the Slopes of the Castle Hill’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 29 Recto:
Prague: The Castle and Cathedral from the Slopes of the Castle Hill 1835
D30352
Turner Bequest CCCI 29
Pencil on cream wove paper, 100 x 159 mm
Partial Watermark ‘af’
Inscribed in red ink by Ruskin ‘29’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCCI – 29’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is a sketch of Prague Castle and St Vitus Cathedral, the ancient seat and place of worship of the Bohemian Kings and Holy Roman Emperors. The imperial complex is situated on elevated ground atop Castle Hill, which dominates the Old Town below.
Other drawings of Prague 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: The Castle and Cathedral from the Slopes of the Castle Hill 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-the-castle-and-cathedral-from-the-slopes-of-the-r1186736, accessed 18 September 2024.