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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Würzburg across the Main Valley from the North 1840

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Würzburg across the Main Valley from the North’ 1840
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 76 Verso:
Würzburg across the Main Valley from the North 1840
D30605
Turner Bequest CCCIII 75a
Pencil on flecked pale blue laid paper, 104 x 170 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The drawings between folios 74 recto and 79 recto (D30600–D30610; Turner Bequest CCCIII 73–78), all made with the pages turned horizontally, are distant views of Würzburg, looking south1 from the sweeping north-westerly bend of the River Main, where the Steinberg and sloping vineyards still provide similar vantage points.
In this relatively slight variant, the city is roughly indicated in the left distance, with the Marienberg fortress high up on the opposite side of the river. For the extensive sequence of Würzburg views in this sketchbook and others elsewhere, see under folio 72 verso (D30596; CCCIII 71).

Matthew Imms
September 2018

1
See Powell 1995, p.245.

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Würzburg across the Main Valley from the North 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-wurzburg-across-the-main-valley-from-the-north-r1196361, accessed 11 May 2024.