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 Prague: Hradcany and an Extensive Prospect of the Little Quarter and down the Vltava, from Petrín Hill 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Prague: Hradcany and an Extensive Prospect of the Little Quarter and down the Vltava, from Petrín Hill’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 72 Recto:
Prague: Hradcany and an Extensive Prospect of the Little Quarter and down the Vltava, from Petrín Hill 1835
D30767
Turner Bequest CCCIV 72
Pencil on cream laid paper, 118 x 190 mm
Watermark with the Lion of the Seven Provinces
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘C[...] Shul[...] w [...]’ bottom right
Inscribed in red ink by Ruskin ‘72’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCCIV–72’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is a view of Prague taken from Petrín Hill. Turner looks down onto the Little Quarter of the city, towards the Old Town across the Vltava River. The dome of St Nicholas’ Church in the Little Quarter can be seen at centre. An illegible inscription reading ‘C[...] Shul[...] w [...]’ is at bottom right.
Turner produced several views of Prague on the 1835 tour. For other drawings in this sketchbook Tate D30759–30761, D30764–D30765, D30767, D30771–D30773, D30775–D30777, D30779–D30783, D30788–D30790, D30792–D30803, D30805, D30807–D30811, D30813–D30820; Turner Bequest CCCIV 68–69, 70a–71, 72, 74–75, 76–77, 78–80, 82a–84, 85–91, 92, 93–96, 97–102. See also the Dresden, Tepliz and Prague sketchbook (Tate D30344–D30361, D30364–D30366; Turner Bequest CCCI 25–33a, 36–37).

Alice Rylance-Watson
December 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Prague: Hradcany and an Extensive Prospect of the Little Quarter and down the Vltava, from Petrín Hill 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-prague-hradcany-and-an-extensive-prospect-of-the-little-r1187142, accessed 18 April 2024.