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 up the Vltava to the Charles Bridge, Petrín Hill and Little Quarter, with the Sun in the South-West 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Prague: View up the Vltava to the Charles Bridge, Petrín Hill and Little Quarter, with the Sun in the South-West’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 96 Recto:
Prague: View up the Vltava to the Charles Bridge, Petrín Hill and Little Quarter, with the Sun in the South-West 1835
D30811
Turner Bequest CCCIV 96
Pencil on cream laid paper, 118 x 190 mm
Watermark with the Lion of the Seven Provinces | ‘[h]onig’ | ‘[jh]&z’
Inscribed in red ink by Ruskin ‘96’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCCIV–96’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is a view of Prague, looking up the Vltava River towards Charles Bridge at centre and the Little Quarter at right. A few riverboats ply the waters in the foreground. The Church of St Nicholas’ Church is seen at far right, with the Church of Our Lady Victorious a little further towards Charles Bridge. Petrín Hill, fortified by the Hunger Wall, can be seen in the background.
Turner produced several views of Prague on the 1835 tour. For other drawings in this sketchbook Tate D30759–30761, D30764–D30765, D30767, D30771–D30773, D30775–D30777, D30779–D30783, D30788–D30790, D30792–D30803, D30805, D30807–D30811, D30813–D30820; Turner Bequest CCCIV 68–69, 70a–71, 72, 74–75, 76–77, 78–80, 82a–84, 85–91, 92, 93–96, 97–102. See also the Dresden, Tepliz and Prague sketchbook (Tate D30344–D30361, D30364–D30366; Turner Bequest CCCI 25–33a, 36–37).

Alice Rylance-Watson
December 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Prague: View up the Vltava to the Charles Bridge, Petrín Hill and Little Quarter, with the Sun in the South-West 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-up-the-vltava-to-the-charles-bridge-petrin-hill-r1187186, accessed 26 April 2024.