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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Stettin: The Königstor, Saint Peter and Saint Paul's Church and Castle from the Königsplatz 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Stettin: The Königstor, Saint Peter and Saint Paul's Church and Castle from the Königsplatz’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 34 Verso
Stettin: The Königstor, Saint Peter and Saint Paul's Church and Castle from the Königsplatz 1835
D31089
Turner Bequest CCCVII 35 a
Pencil on cream laid paper, 89 x 162 mm
Watermarked with a beehive surrounded by garlands and bees
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Gross Conicks’ top left
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Taken from the Königsplatz(King’s Square), this sketch of Stettin in Pomerania shows the Königstor city gate at left, the Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul close by and the Castle at centre right. Turner has inscribed ‘Gross Conicks’ close to the Königstor.
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: The Königstor, Saint Peter and Saint Paul's Church and Castle from the Königsplatz 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-the-konigstor-saint-peter-and-saint-pauls-church-and-r1186962, accessed 24 April 2024.