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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Josefs Platz, Nuremberg, with a Fountain 1840

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Josefs Platz, Nuremberg, with a Fountain’ 1840
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 29 Verso:
Josefs Platz, Nuremberg, with a Fountain 1840
D31333
Turner Bequest CCCX 29a
Pencil on cream wove paper, 126 x 198 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Adler Str’ centre right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The drawing was made with the page turned horizontally. Cecilia Powell has identified the viewpoint as Josefs Platz in Nuremberg, looking west in the direction of the Weisser Turm1 (see folio 30 recto opposite; D31334). On the right Turner has noted Adler Strasse, likely from a street sign, which still runs east from here, albeit none of the buildings depicted survived the Second World War and the vicinity has been rebuilt in a variety of stripped-down vernacular and modernist styles.
For a few other Nuremberg sketches in this book and the more extensive sequence from 1835, see under the recto (D31332).2

Matthew Imms
September 2018

1
See Powell 1995, p.243.
2
See also ibid., pp.70, 82 note 55.

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Josefs Platz, Nuremberg, with a Fountain 1840 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 2018, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2019, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-josefs-platz-nuremberg-with-a-fountain-r1196121, accessed 23 April 2024.