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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Heidelberg: The Castle from the West Terrace 1833

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Heidelberg: The Castle from the West Terrace’ 1833
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 2 Verso:
Heidelberg: The Castle from the West Terrace 1833
D29817
Turner Bequest CCXCVIII 2a
Pencil on cream wove paper, 110 x 165 mm
Watermarked ‘j.whatman’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This sketch is part of a panorama of Heidelberg Castle’s western terrace, continued on Tate D29816; Turner Bequest CCXCVIII 2).1 In this section of the panorama Turner pictures the Gate Tower.

Alice Rylance-Watson
May 2017

1
See David Hill, ‘In Turner’s Footsteps at Heidelberg: Part 1’, Sublime Sites, accessed 19 May 2017, https://sublimesites.co/2015/10/19/in-turners-footsteps-at-heidelberg/

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Heidelberg: The Castle from the West Terrace 1833 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2017, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, March 2023, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-heidelberg-the-castle-from-the-west-terrace-r1203077, accessed 19 May 2024.