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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Frankfurt: The Tower of the Cathedral 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Frankfurt: The Tower of the Cathedral’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 26 Verso:
Frankfurt: The Tower of the Cathedral 1835
D30679
Turner Bequest CCCIV 26 a
Pencil on cream laid paper, 118 x 190 mm
Watermark ‘[jan h]onig’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is the tower of Frankfurt Cathedral, continued from a study rendered on Tate D30684; Turner Bequest CCCIV 29. Frankfurt Cathedral was constructed in the fourteenth and fifteenth centruries on the foundations of an earlier church. Though not a true cathedral (an episcopal see), the building was used for the election and coronation of Holy Roman Emperors and came to be known as the ‘Kaiserdom’ because of its significance in Imperial history.

Alice Rylance-Watson
December 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Frankfurt: The Tower of the Cathedral 1835 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, December 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-frankfurt-the-tower-of-the-cathedral-r1187058, accessed 24 April 2024.