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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Prague: Distant View 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Prague: Distant View’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 83 Recto:
Prague: Distant View 1835
D30789
Turner Bequest CCCIV 83
Pencil on cream laid paper, 118 x 190 mm
Watermark ‘jh [&z]’
Inscribed in red ink by Ruskin ‘83’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCCIV–83’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This may be a distant view of Petrín Hill in Prague, which was fortified in the fourteenth century by Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV. The wall is crenelated and features battlements at regular intervals (see Tate D30347, D30353, D30365, D30761, D30775; Turner Bequest CCCI 26a, 29a, 36a, CCCIV 69, 76).

Alice Rylance-Watson
December 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Prague: Distant View 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-r1187164, accessed 26 April 2024.