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 from the East 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Prague: View from the East’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 102 Recto:
Prague: View from the East 1835
D30820
Turner Bequest CCCIV 102
Pencil on cream laid paper, 190 x 118 mm
Watermark with the Lion of the Seven Provinces | ‘[h]onig’ | ‘[jh]&z’
Inscribed in red ink by Ruskin ‘102’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCCIV–102’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is a view of the imperial Castle and the Hradcany district in Prague, taken from the east. The tall twin towers at right probably mark out St George’s Basilica, with the adjacent pedimented building being part of the Lobkowicz Palace. Various other churches, palaces and buildings are shown, including the onion-domed Loreta.
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 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-r1187195, accessed 23 April 2024.