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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Nuremberg: The Burg and Tiergärtnertor from the West (the Northern End of the Neutorgraben) 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Nuremberg: The Burg and Tiergärtnertor from the West (the Northern End of the Neutorgraben)’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 47 Verso:
Nuremberg: The Burg and Tiergärtnertor from the West (the Northern End of the Neutorgraben) 1835
D30720
Turner Bequest CCCIV 47 a
Pencil on cream laid paper, 118 x 190 mm
Watermark with the Lion of the Seven Provinces
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is a view of the imperial castle (Burg) at Nuremberg, Germany. Turner took the sketch from the northern section of the Neutorgraben, part of the medieval walls which circuit the city. One of the towers defending Nuremberg and its castle, the Tiergärtnertor, is depicted at right.
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 Tiergärtnertor from the West (the Northern End of the Neutorgraben) 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-tiergartnertor-from-the-west-the-r1187096, accessed 23 April 2024.