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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Nuremberg: The Burg from the Spittlertorgraben 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Nuremberg: The Burg from the Spittlertorgraben’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 44 Recto:
Nuremberg: The Burg from the Spittlertorgraben 1835
D30713
Turner Bequest CCCIV 44
Pencil on cream laid paper, 118 x 190 mm
Watermark ‘jh[&z]’
Inscribed in red ink by Ruskin ‘44’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCCIV–44’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is a view of the Bavarian city of Nuremberg and its imperial Castle. It was taken from a vantage point on the Spittlertorgraben, one of the medieval walls which runs around the southwestern side of the old town. Nuremberg Castle comprises the Kaiserburg (residence of the Holy Roman Emperors and Kings of Germany) as well as municipal buildings and the quarters of Burgraves of Nuremberg. Sinwell Tower and Luginsland Tower (translated as ‘watch-over-the-land-tower’) are pictured in the rough sketch at bottom left.
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: The Burg from the Spittlertorgraben 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-the-burg-from-the-spittlertorgraben-r1187089, accessed 20 September 2024.