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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Shrine, possibly on Petrín Hill in Prague 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Shrine, possibly on Petrín Hill in Prague’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 72 Verso:
A Shrine, possibly on Petrín Hill in Prague 1835
D30768
Turner Bequest CCCIV 72 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
Turner scholar Cecilia Powell proposes that this cursory jotting depicts a shrine, possibly at or near Petrín Hill in Prague where a church dedicated to St Lawrence is situated.

Alice Rylance-Watson
December 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘A Shrine, possibly on Petrín Hill in Prague 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-a-shrine-possibly-on-petrin-hill-in-prague-r1187143, accessed 20 September 2024.