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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Frankfurt: The Tower of the Cathedral Glimpsed among Other Buildings 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Frankfurt: The Tower of the Cathedral Glimpsed among Other Buildings’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 96 Verso:
Frankfurt: The Tower of the Cathedral Glimpsed among Other Buildings 1835
D30812
Turner Bequest CCCIV 96 a
Pencil on cream laid paper, 190 x 118 mm
Watermark with the Lion of the Seven Provinces | ‘[h]onig’ | ‘[jh]&z’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The cursory view at rear, produced with the sketchbook turned horizontally, depicts Frankfurt Cathedral. Turner has captured this view from the end of a narrow street in the city, looking in the direction of the Cathedral’s soaring gothic tower. The artist travelled through Frankfurt on his route back to England.
The other buildings depicted do not appear to have been sketched at Frankfurt. They may show buildings in Prague.

Alice Rylance-Watson
December 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Frankfurt: The Tower of the Cathedral Glimpsed among Other Buildings 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-frankfurt-the-tower-of-the-cathedral-glimpsed-among-other-r1187187, accessed 19 April 2024.