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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Prague: The Town Hall of the Old Town with its Astronomical Clock, with the Tyn Church beyond 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Prague: The Town Hall of the Old Town with its Astronomical Clock, with the Tyn Church beyond’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 86 Recto:
Prague: The Town Hall of the Old Town with its Astronomical Clock, with the Tyn Church beyond 1835
D30794
Turner Bequest CCCIV 86
Pencil on cream laid paper, 190 x 118 mm
Watermark ‘[jan honig] & | zonen’
Inscribed in red ink by Ruskin ‘86’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCCIV–86’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This sketch is part of a view of Prague’s Old Town Hall and astronomical clock which extends onto the folio opposite (Tate D30793; Turner Bequest CCCIV 85a).

Alice Rylance-Watson
December 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Prague: The Town Hall of the Old Town with its Astronomical Clock, with the Tyn Church beyond 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-the-town-hall-of-the-old-town-with-its-astronomical-r1187169, accessed 26 April 2024.