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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8

Joseph Mallord William Turner Stettin: Two Views from the North-East, Dominated by the Castle and St James's Church 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 33 Recto
Stettin: Two Views from the North-East, Dominated by the Castle and St James's Church 1835
D31086
Turner Bequest CCCVII 34
Pencil on cream laid paper, 89 x 162 mm
Watermarked with a beehive surrounded by garlands and bees
Inscribed in red ink by Ruskin ‘34’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCCVII–34’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
These are two roughly rendered prospects of Stettin taken from the Logengarten. The views are orientated inversely to one another. Stettin Castle, formerly the seat of the Dukes of Pomerania, and Church of St James are shown in both sketches, dominating the city and River Oder from atop a hill.
For other sketches of Stettin see Tate D31083–D31093, D31095–D31106; Turner Bequest CCCVII 32a–37a, 38a–44.

Alice Rylance-Watson
May 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Stettin: Two Views from the North-East, Dominated by the Castle and St James's Church 1835 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 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-stettin-two-views-from-the-north-east-dominated-by-the-r1186959, accessed 25 April 2024.