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: View from the Pegnitz West of the Kettensteg, Looking East to the Neutor, Burg and St Sebaldus 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Nuremberg: View from the Pegnitz West of the Kettensteg, Looking East to the Neutor, Burg and St Sebaldus’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 56 Recto:
Nuremberg: View from the Pegnitz West of the Kettensteg, Looking East to the Neutor, Burg and St Sebaldus 1835
D30736
Turner Bequest CCCIV 56
Pencil on cream laid paper, 118 x 190 mm
Watermark with the Lion of the Seven Provinces
Inscribed in red ink by Ruskin ‘56’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCCIV–56’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This view of the city of Nuremberg, Germany, was taken from the River Pegnitz and looks towards the Neutor (in the middle distance at left), the Imperial Castle (atop the heights in the distance at centre) and the Church of St Sebaldus (centre right). Turner took this sketch near the Kettensteg, a pedestrian bridge in Nuremberg’s Old Town.
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: View from the Pegnitz West of the Kettensteg, Looking East to the Neutor, Burg and St Sebaldus 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-view-from-the-pegnitz-west-of-the-kettensteg-r1187111, accessed 25 April 2024.