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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Regensburg Cathedral across the River Danube, with the Steinerne Brücke 1840

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Regensburg Cathedral across the River Danube, with the Steinerne Brücke’ 1840
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 45 Verso:
Regensburg Cathedral across the River Danube, with the Steinerne Brücke 1840
D31365
Turner Bequest CCCX 45a
Pencil on cream wove paper, 126 x 198 mm
Partial watermark ‘J. Wha’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
As recognised by Cecilia Powell,1 this horizontal view shows Regensburg across the River Danube, looking south to the cathedral (then lacking the upper stages and taller spires of its west towers), with the Steinerne Brücke overlooked by the Brückturm slightly downstream on the right. Ian Warrell has shown this and other sketches from similar viewpoints on adjacent pages informed a watercolour of the scene, as discussed under folio 42 verso (D31359);2 for numerous other contemporary views of the city in this sketchbook and elsewhere, see under folio 18 verso (D31311).3

Matthew Imms
September 2018

1
See Powell 1995, p.243.
2
See Warrell 2015, pp.6, 8 note 15.
3
See also Powell 1995, pp.69, 81 note 45.

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Regensburg Cathedral across the River Danube, with the Steinerne Brücke 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-regensburg-cathedral-across-the-river-danube-with-the-r1196153, accessed 25 April 2024.