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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Berlin: View across the Opernplatz from the University to the Opera House, New and French Churches and the Royal Library 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Berlin: View across the Opernplatz from the University to the Opera House, New and French Churches and the Royal Library’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 13 Verso
Berlin: View across the Opernplatz from the University to the Opera House, New and French Churches and the Royal Library 1835
D31047
Turner Bequest CCCVII 14 a
Pencil on cream laid paper, 89 x 162 mm
Watermarked with a beehive surrounded by garlands and bees
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Here Turner depicts a view of Berlin from the University, looking across the Opernplatz to the Opera House, the French Cathedral, Neue Kirche, and the Old Royal Library on Bebelplatz. The Library, rendered at right in more detail, grew from the collection of Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg (1620–88) and his son Frederick I, the first King of Prussia (1657–1713).
For other sketches of Berlin see Tate D21045–D31082; Turner Bequest CCCVII 13a–32.

Alice Rylance-Watson
May 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Berlin: View across the Opernplatz from the University to the Opera House, New and French Churches and the Royal Library 1835 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2015, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, August 2017, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-berlin-view-across-the-opernplatz-from-the-university-to-the-r1186920, accessed 11 May 2024.