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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8

Joseph Mallord William Turner Nuremberg: The Dürer House, Tiergärtnertor and Burg from Albrecht-Dürer-Strasse 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 46 Verso:
Nuremberg: The Dürer House, Tiergärtnertor and Burg from Albrecht-Dürer-Strasse 1835
D30718
Turner Bequest CCCIV 46 a
Pencil on cream laid paper, 118 x 190 mm
Watermark ‘[z]onen’
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘alb | Dur’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is a scene in Nuremberg taken from Albrecht-Dürer-Strasse. The artist Albrecht Dürer was born in Nuremberg in 1471 and lived there from 1509 until his death in 1539. His house is depicted in the foreground at right and inscribed ‘alb | Dur’. The Imperial Castle (Burg) is visible atop the heights in the background, and the Tiergärtnertor, a tall square-bottomed gate tower, can be seen at 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 Dürer House, Tiergärtnertor and Burg from Albrecht-Dürer-Strasse 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-durer-house-tiergartnertor-and-burg-from-r1187094, accessed 28 March 2024.