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: The Burg and Neutor from the Neutorgraben; The Königstor from Königstrasse 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Nuremberg: The Burg and Neutor from the Neutorgraben; The Königstor from Königstrasse’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 45 Verso:
Nuremberg: The Burg and Neutor from the Neutorgraben; The Königstor from Königstrasse 1835
D30716
Turner Bequest CCCIV 45 a
Pencil on cream laid paper, 190 x 118 mm
Watermark ‘jh[&z]’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
These sketches show aspects of Nuremberg, Bavaria. Nuremberg Castle is depicted in the uppermost view, which extends onto the folio opposite (Tate D30717; Turner Bequest CCCIV 46). The Castle was the imperial residence of the Holy Roman Emperors and Kings of Germany. It overlooks the city from a high ridge and is protected by a network of medieval walls, one of which, the Neutorgraben, is depicted in the foreground.
The Königstor seen from the Königstrasse is depicted in the sketch at rear.
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 and Neutor from the Neutorgraben; The Königstor from Königstrasse 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-and-neutor-from-the-neutorgraben-the-r1187092, accessed 25 April 2024.