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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Prague: Hradcany and the Charles Bridge from the South-Eastern Edge of the Bridge 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Prague: Hradcany and the Charles Bridge from the South-Eastern Edge of the Bridge’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 33 Recto:
Prague: Hradcany and the Charles Bridge from the South-Eastern Edge of the Bridge 1835
D30360
Turner Bequest CCCI 33
Pencil on cream wove paper, 100 x 159 mm
Inscribed in red ink by Ruskin ‘33’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCCI – 33’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is a view of the Charles Bridge in Prague, capital of Bohemia. Each side of the bridge is adorned with mounted statues of saints, some of which can be seen at centre. Atop the heights of the Hradcany district in the distance Turner has rendered the exterior walls of Prague Castle and steeple of St Vitus Cathedral in summary outline.
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: Hradcany and the Charles Bridge from the South-Eastern Edge of the Bridge 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-hradcany-and-the-charles-bridge-from-the-south-r1186744, accessed 23 September 2024.