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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Berlin: The Pariser Platz with Count Redern's Palace (Left) and the Brandenburg Gate 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Berlin: The Pariser Platz with Count Redern's Palace (Left) and the Brandenburg Gate’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 22 Verso
Berlin: The Pariser Platz with Count Redern's Palace (Left) and the Brandenburg Gate 1835
D31065
Turner Bequest CCCVII 23 a
Pencil on cream laid paper, 89 x 162 mm
Watermark ‘cfw & s’
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘B’ top centre; ‘Barriser Stratz’ bottom left
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This sketch shows Berlin’s Pariser Platz (inscribed ‘Barriser Stratz’) with the Brandenburg Gate at centre. At left is the Palais Redern, mansion of Count Wilhelm von Redern (1802–83).1 The Count was a celebrated figure in Prussian society and at the time of Turner’s visit was director of the Königliche Schauspiele (The Royal Theatre).
For other sketches of Berlin see Tate D21045–D31082; Turner Bequest CCCVII 13a–32.

Alice Rylance-Watson
May 2015

1
Michael Snodin, A Universal Man, New Haven and London 1991, pp. 25, 178.

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Berlin: The Pariser Platz with Count Redern's Palace (Left) and the Brandenburg Gate 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-pariser-platz-with-count-rederns-palace-left-and-r1186938, accessed 23 April 2024.