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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Berlin: View along Unter den Linden past the University (Left) and Opera (Right) to the Schlossplatz 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Berlin: View along Unter den Linden past the University (Left) and Opera (Right) to the Schlossplatz’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 25 Verso
Berlin: View along Unter den Linden past the University (Left) and Opera (Right) to the Schlossplatz 1835
D31071
Turner Bequest CCCVII 26 a
Pencil on cream laid paper, 89 x 162 mm
Watermarked with a beehive surrounded by garlands and bees
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Platz and | Opera House’ top right; ‘8’, ‘5’ centre right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
From Unter den Linden Boulevard in Berlin, here Turner depicts the University at left and the Opera House at right. At centre in the distance is Schlossplatz (renamed Marx-Engels-Platz), which formerly gave onto the City Palace or Schloss (now demolished). The artist has inscribed ‘Platz and Opera House’, and the numbers ‘8’ and ‘5’ against the bays of the Opera House.
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 along Unter den Linden past the University (Left) and Opera (Right) to the Schlossplatz 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-along-unter-den-linden-past-the-university-left-r1186944, accessed 20 September 2024.