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: View down the Vltava, from Petrín Hill, with St Lawrence's Church on the Left; Cologne, with the Bridge of Boats and Cathedral 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Prague: View down the Vltava, from Petrín Hill, with St Lawrence's Church on the Left; Cologne, with the Bridge of Boats and Cathedral’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 73 Verso:
Prague: View down the Vltava, from Petrín Hill, with St Lawrence's Church on the Left; Cologne, with the Bridge of Boats and Cathedral 1835
D30770
Turner Bequest CCCIV 73 a
Pencil on cream laid paper, 118 x 190 mm
Watermark with the Lion of the Seven Provinces | ‘[jan h]onig’ | ‘[jh]&z’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The larger of the two sketches rendered here shows Prague. Turner has captured a view down the Vltava River, which flows through the centre of the city, from a vantage point on Petrín Hill. St Lawrence’s Church on the Hill can be seen at far left (see Tate D30771; Turner Bequest CCCIV 74).
The second, more cursory sketch is of Cologne and shows the cathedral at right and a bridge of boats running across the Rhine at left. For more sketches of the city see Tate D30762–D30763, D30766, D30770, D30772, D30774, D30778; Turner Bequest CCCIV 70–70a, 71a, 73a, 74a, 75a, 77a.

Alice Rylance-Watson
December 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Prague: View down the Vltava, from Petrín Hill, with St Lawrence's Church on the Left; Cologne, with the Bridge of Boats and Cathedral 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-view-down-the-vltava-from-petrin-hill-with-st-r1187145, accessed 20 September 2024.