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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Würzburg, with the Alte Mainbrücke over the River Main, Marienkapelle, Rathaus, Neumünster and Cathedral from the Hillside above St Burkard's Church 1840

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Würzburg, with the Alte Mainbrücke over the River Main, Marienkapelle, Rathaus, Neumünster and Cathedral from the Hillside above St Burkard's Church’ 1840
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 85 Verso:
Würzburg, with the Alte Mainbrücke over the River Main, Marienkapelle, Rathaus, Neumünster and Cathedral from the Hillside above St Burkard’s Church 1840
D30623
Turner Bequest CCCIII 84a
Pencil on flecked pale blue laid paper, 104 x 170 mm
Partial watermark (countermark): indecipherable maker’s name
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This prospect of Würzburg, made with the page turned horizontally, was identified by Cecilia Powell.1 The viewpoint is the hillside near St Burkard’s Church below the Marienberg fortress on the west bank of the River Main, looking north-west with the Alte Mainbrücke above the lightly indicated weir on the left. On the opposite bank are arrayed the Baroque spire of the Marienkapelle (since rebuilt in Gothic Revival style), the tower and slim spire of the Rathaus, the dome of the Neumünster and the four spires of the cathedral to its east.
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

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See Powell 1995, p.245.

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Würzburg, with the Alte Mainbrücke over the River Main, Marienkapelle, Rathaus, Neumünster and Cathedral from the Hillside above St Burkard’s Church 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-with-the-alte-mainbrucke-over-the-river-main-r1196379, accessed 20 September 2024.