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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1830-35 Annual tourist > Northern Germany, the Elbe and Prague ... > Prague, Nuremberg, Frankfurt and Rhine ... > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Nuremberg: View along Königstrasse to the Mauthalle and St Lorenz; Landscape 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Nuremberg: View along Königstrasse to the Mauthalle and St Lorenz; Landscape’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 41 Recto:
Nuremberg: View along Königstrasse to the Mauthalle and St Lorenz; Landscape 1835
D30708
Turner Bequest CCCIV 41
Pencil on cream laid paper, 118 x 190 mm
Watermark with the Lion of the Seven Provinces
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘[...]ft Road’ top right descending
Stamped in black ‘CCCIV–41’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Here Turner pictures the Königstrasse, a busy street in Nuremberg, Bavaria. At left is the Mauthalle, Nuremberg’s customshouse (‘maut’ is ‘toll’ in German), and at centre is the Church of St Lorenz.
In a separate sketch at far right Turner has rendered a cursory landscape inscribed ‘[...]ft Road’.
For more views of Nuremberg see Tate D30707–D30711, D30713, D30715–D30718, D30720–D30726, D30729–D30730; Turner Bequest CCCIV 40a–42a, 44, 45–46a, 47a–50a, 52–52a.

Alice Rylance-Watson
December 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Nuremberg: View along Königstrasse to the Mauthalle and St Lorenz; Landscape 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-nuremberg-view-along-konigstrasse-to-the-mauthalle-and-st-r1187084, accessed 20 September 2024.