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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Heidelberg: The Castle and Neckar Valley from the East 1833

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Heidelberg: The Castle and Neckar Valley from the East’ 1833
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 11 Recto:
Heidelberg: The Castle and Neckar Valley from the East 1833
D29834
Turner Bequest CCXCVIII 11
Pencil on cream wove paper, 110 x 165 mm
Watermarked ‘j.whatman’
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘11’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CCXCVIII 11’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Heidelberg Castle is depicted from the east, with the Neckar valley beyond and the steeple of the Church of the Holy Spirit visible towards bottom right. The whole of the eastern façade of the Castle is shown including, from left to right, the Broken Tower and Apothecary’s Tower, the top of the Great Tower on the western side, and the octagonal Bell Tower. Studies of the Castle from the east recorded in this sketchbook (Tate D29829–D29837; Turner Bequest CCXCVIII 8a–12a) and in the later Spires and Heidelberg sketchbook (Tate D29799; Turner Bequest CCXCVII 14a) were developed into a watercolour of 1844 (Tate D35229; Turner CCCLII 9).

Alice Rylance-Watson
May 2017

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Heidelberg: The Castle and Neckar Valley from the East 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-and-neckar-valley-from-the-east-r1203094, accessed 19 May 2024.