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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Nuremberg: The Burg and Sinwellturm from the Northern End of Burgstrasse 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Nuremberg: The Burg and Sinwellturm from the Northern End of Burgstrasse’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 52 Recto:
Nuremberg: The Burg and Sinwellturm from the Northern End of Burgstrasse 1835
D30729
Turner Bequest CCCIV 52
Pencil on cream laid paper, 118 x 190 mm
Watermark with the Lion of the Seven Provinces | ‘honig’ | ‘[jh]&z’
Inscribed in red ink by Ruskin ‘52’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCCIV–52’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Here Turner depicts the imperial castle at Nuremberg, from a vantage point on the northern end of the Burgstrasse. Sinwell Tower, the Kaiserstellung and Luginsland Tower can be seen from centre to 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 Sinwellturm from the Northern End of Burgstrasse 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-sinwellturm-from-the-northern-end-of-r1187104, accessed 25 April 2024.