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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Heidelberg: View from the Stückgarten of the Castle, with the Great Tower 1833

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Heidelberg: View from the Stückgarten of the Castle, with the Great Tower’ 1833
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 4 Recto:
Heidelberg: View from the Stückgarten of the Castle, with the Great Tower 1833
D29820
Turner Bequest CCXCVIII 4
Pencil on cream wove paper, 110 x 165 mm
Watermarked ‘j.whatman’
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘4’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CCXCVIII 4’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This sketch was taken at the Stückgarten of Heidelberg Castle (see Tate D29819; CCXCVIII 3a). The ruined Great Tower is at right, with the Church of the Holy Spirit, old bridge and Neckar valley beyond.

Alice Rylance-Watson
May 2017

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Heidelberg: View from the Stückgarten of the Castle, with the Great Tower 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-view-from-the-stuckgarten-of-the-castle-with-the-r1203080, accessed 20 May 2024.