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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The West Front of Regensburg Cathedral 1840

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The West Front of Regensburg Cathedral’ 1840
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 47 Recto:
The West Front of Regensburg Cathedral 1840
D31368
Turner Bequest CCCX 47
Pencil on cream wove paper, 126 x 198 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘47’ top right, ascending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCCX – 47’ top right, ascending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the page turned horizontally, this is a continuation from the full-page view of Regensburg Cathedral’s west front on folio 46 verso opposite (D31367), showing the capped towers as they then stood. The subject was identified by Cecilia Powell.1 In the 1860s they were extended2 with a further fenestrated stage and slender but heavily decorated spires of octagonal section, together roughly doubling the height of the façade.
For numerous contemporary views of Regensburg 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, p.6.
3
See also Powell 1995, pp.69, 81 note 45.

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘The West Front of Regensburg Cathedral 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-the-west-front-of-regensburg-cathedral-r1196156, accessed 26 April 2024.