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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Prague; View through the Melantrichova Passage to the Town Hall of the Old Town with its Astronomical Clock 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Prague; View through the Melantrichova Passage to the Town Hall of the Old Town with its Astronomical Clock’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 86 Verso:
Prague; View through the Melantrichova Passage to the Town Hall of the Old Town with its Astronomical Clock 1835
D30795
Turner Bequest CCCIV 86 a
Pencil on cream laid paper, 190 x 118 mm
Watermark ‘[jan honig] & | zonen’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This sketch was taken on the streets of Prague’s medieval Old Town. Here Turner looks through the arched Melantrichova Passage towards the Town Hall and the astronomical clock mounted on its southern wall (see Tate D30793; Turner Bequest CCCIV 85a).

Alice Rylance-Watson
December 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Prague; View through the Melantrichova Passage to the Town Hall of the Old Town with its Astronomical Clock 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-through-the-melantrichova-passage-to-the-town-r1187170, accessed 25 April 2024.