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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8

Joseph Mallord William Turner Prague; Distant View of Düsseldorf 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 78 Verso:
Prague; Distant View of Düsseldorf 1835
D30780
Turner Bequest CCCIV 78 a
Watermark ‘[h]onig’
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Dusseldorf’ top right
Pencil on cream laid paper, 118 x 190 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The larger of the two sketches rendered on this page probably shows Prague, with the Vltava River running through its centre crossed by the Charles Bridge. The large building at right, which appears to have been redrawn in the sky above, may be St Vitus Cathedral. Turner’s second sketch, orientated inversely to the Prague view, is a distant view of Düsseldorfin Germany. The artist passed through Düsseldorf on his way back to England via the Rhine.

Alice Rylance-Watson
December 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Prague; Distant View of Düsseldorf 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-distant-view-of-dusseldorf-r1187155, accessed 29 March 2024.