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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Prague: View from the East 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Prague: View from the East’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 101 Recto:
Prague: View from the East 1835
D30819
Turner Bequest CCCIV 101
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 ‘101’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCCIV–101’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is a view of the Bohemian capital of Prague taken from the east.
Verso:
Blank.

Alice Rylance-Watson
December 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Prague: View from the East 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-from-the-east-r1187194, accessed 26 April 2024.