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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Prague: View of the City from the Forecourt in front of the Castle (Seen on the Left) (in Two Instalments Looking East and South) 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Prague: View of the City from the Forecourt in front of the Castle (Seen on the Left) (in Two Instalments Looking East and South)’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 31 Verso:
Prague: View of the City from the Forecourt in front of the Castle (Seen on the Left) (in Two Instalments Looking East and South) 1835
D30357
Turner Bequest CCCI 31 a
Pencil on cream wove paper, 100 x 159 mm
Partial Watermark ‘cf’
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘2’ top right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is a view of the Bohemian capital Prague, taken from the forecourt of Prague Castle. From there Turner was able to sketch the church spires, towers, domes and rooftops to the east and south of the Hradcany district, rendering the southerly view in a separate squared-off sketch (inscribed ‘2’) above the easterly view.
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: View of the City from the Forecourt in front of the Castle (Seen on the Left) (in Two Instalments Looking East and South) 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-of-the-city-from-the-forecourt-in-front-of-the-r1186741, accessed 20 September 2024.