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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Frankfurt: View across the Main to the Cathedral with the Bridge on the Right (with Continuation in Sky) 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Frankfurt: View across the Main to the Cathedral with the Bridge on the Right (with Continuation in Sky)’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 31 Recto:
Frankfurt: View across the Main to the Cathedral with the Bridge on the Right (with Continuation in Sky) 1835
D30688
Turner Bequest CCCIV 31
Pencil on cream laid paper, 118 x 190 mm
Watermark ‘Zo[nen]’
Stamped in black ‘CCCIV–31’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This slight sketch shows a view across the River Main at Frankfurt, Germany. Turner pictures the Alte Brücke (Old Bridge) at right and the tower of the Cathedral in the distance at left. The bridge is continued in the sky at top right.
For more sketches of Frankfurt see Tate D30678–D30679, D30684–D30698, D30700–D30705; Turner Bequest CCCIV 26–26a, 29–36, 37–39a.

Alice Rylance-Watson
December 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Frankfurt: View across the Main to the Cathedral with the Bridge on the Right (with Continuation in Sky) 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-view-across-the-main-to-the-cathedral-with-the-r1187064, accessed 26 April 2024.