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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Buildings near the Schiegenturm, Regensburg, Looking up the River Danube 1840

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Buildings near the Schiegenturm, Regensburg, Looking up the River Danube’ 1840
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 39 Verso:
Buildings near the Schiegenturm, Regensburg, Looking up the River Danube 1840
D31353
Turner Bequest CCCX 39a
Pencil on cream wove paper, 126 x 198 mm
Partial watermark ‘J. Wh’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
As identified by Cecilia Powell,1 this horizontal view is to the west along Regensburg’s medieval walls overlooking the River Danube west of the city centre, looking upstream past some of the numerous towers formerly lining the south bank. The viewpoint is uncertain, as only the most westerly of the chain, the Prebrunnturm, now survives in the Herzogspark, and the quays are tree-lined. There is a view in the opposite direction on folio 40 recto opposite (D31354).
For numerous contemporary views of Regensburg in this sketchbook and elsewhere, see under folio 18 verso (D31311).2

Matthew Imms
September 2018

1
See Powell 1995, p.243.
2
See also ibid., pp.69, 81 note 45.

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Buildings near the Schiegenturm, Regensburg, Looking up the River Danube 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-buildings-near-the-schiegenturm-regensburg-looking-up-the-r1196141, accessed 23 April 2024.