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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Berlin: The Kreuzberg and City Centre from a Distance (in Two Instalments) 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Berlin: The Kreuzberg and City Centre from a Distance (in Two Instalments)’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 18 Verso
Berlin: The Kreuzberg and City Centre from a Distance (in Two Instalments) 1835
D31057
Turner Bequest CCCVII 19 a
Pencil on cream laid paper, 89 x 162 mm
Watermark ‘cfw & s’
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Mar’ top right; ‘Road’ centre right (inverted)
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is a prospect of Berlin taken from the Kreuzberg heights. It is rendered in two instalments, each orientated inversely to one another. The Marienkirche (annotated ‘Mar’ by Turner), Nikolaikirche, Cathedral, Neue Kirche and French Church can all be seen. A windmill is visible on the hill at right.
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: The Kreuzberg and City Centre from a Distance (in Two Instalments) 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-the-kreuzberg-and-city-centre-from-a-distance-in-two-r1186930, accessed 16 April 2024.