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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Berlin: The Internal Courtyard of the Schloss 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Berlin: The Internal Courtyard of the Schloss’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 29 Recto
Berlin: The Internal Courtyard of the Schloss 1835
D31078
Turner Bequest CCCVII 30
Pencil on cream laid paper, 89 x 162 mm
Watermark double ‘X’ mark
Inscribed in pencil ‘2’ top left; ‘Cor Pilas’ top right; ‘Cor’ top right towards centre; ‘Dor’ | ‘Cor’ bottom right
Inscribed in red ink by Ruskin ‘30’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCCVII–30’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is a study of the inner courtyard of the Stadtschloss in Berlin. Turner’s inscription ‘Cor Pilas’ is a shortening of ‘Corinthian pilasters’ and ‘Dor’ refers to ‘Doric’.
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 Internal Courtyard of the Schloss 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-internal-courtyard-of-the-schloss-r1186951, accessed 13 May 2024.