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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Berlin: View Eastwards along the Spree to the Waisenhauskirche and the Waisenbrücke, with Boats in the Foreground 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Berlin: View Eastwards along the Spree to the Waisenhauskirche and the Waisenbrücke, with Boats in the Foreground’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
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Berlin: View Eastwards along the Spree to the Waisenhauskirche and the Waisenbrücke, with Boats in the Foreground 1835
D31052
Turner Bequest CCCVII 17
Pencil on cream laid paper, 89 x 162 mm
Watermark double ‘X’ mark
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Neu [R...] | [...] Kolln am Wasser’ bottom right
Inscribed in red ink by Ruskin ‘17’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCCVII–17’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Here Turner has rendered a view of Berlin looking along the River Spree towards the Waisenhauskirche (Church of the Orphanage) and the Waisenbrücke (Orphan’s Bridge). Boats are moored at the banks of the Spree; Turner has inscribed a note at bottom right reading ‘Neu [R...] | [...] Kolln am Wasser’.
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 Eastwards along the Spree to the Waisenhauskirche and the Waisenbrücke, with Boats in the Foreground 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-eastwards-along-the-spree-to-the-r1186925, accessed 26 April 2024.