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: St Elizabeth, the Weisserturm and St Jakob from Ludwigstrasse; Nuremberg; St Lorenz from Karolinenstrasse 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Nuremberg: St Elizabeth, the Weisserturm and St Jakob from Ludwigstrasse; Nuremberg; St Lorenz from Karolinenstrasse’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 48 Recto
Nuremberg: St Elizabeth, the Weisserturm and St Jakob from Ludwigstrasse; Nuremberg; St Lorenz from Karolinenstrasse 1835
D30721
Turner Bequest CCCIV 48
Pencil on cream laid paper, 118 x 190 mm
Watermark ‘[jan] honig [& zonen]’
Inscribed in red ink by Ruskin ‘48’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCCIV–48’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
These sketches depict aspects of Nuremberg, Germany. The view orientated horizontally was taken on Ludwigstrasse and shows the domed neo-classical church of St Elizabeth at left, the Weisserturm or White Tower at the end of the street and the church of St Jakob at right. A second view of Nuremberg is rendered to the right of the Ludwigstrasse view, with the sketchbook turned upside down. It shows the Church of St Lorenz from the Karolinenstrasse.
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: St Elizabeth, the Weisserturm and St Jakob from Ludwigstrasse; Nuremberg; St Lorenz from Karolinenstrasse 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-st-elizabeth-the-weisserturm-and-st-jakob-from-r1187097, accessed 19 April 2024.