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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Heidelberg: The Castle, Town and Neckar Valley from the East (in Two Instalments) 1833

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Heidelberg: The Castle, Town and Neckar Valley from the East (in Two Instalments)’ 1833
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 12 Verso:
Heidelberg: The Castle, Town and Neckar Valley from the East (in Two Instalments) 1833
D29837
Turner Bequest CCXCVIII 12 a
Pencil on cream wove paper, 110 x 165 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘5’, ‘8’ right, above bridge
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Heidelberg is depicted from the east, with the Castle at left, and the town, the Church of the Holy Spirit and the old bridge crossing the Neckar visible at right. The eastern façade of the Castle is shown, including from left to right, the Gate Tower, the Broken Tower and Apothecary’s Tower, and the octagonal Bell Tower. A continuation of fortified hillside is rendered in the sky at top right.
Studies of the Castle from the east recorded in this sketchbook (Tate D29829–D29836; Turner Bequest CCXCVIII 8a–12) 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, Town and Neckar Valley from the East (in Two Instalments) 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-town-and-neckar-valley-from-the-east-r1203097, accessed 20 May 2024.