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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Copenhagen: View of the Amalienborg Palace Showing the Schack Palace, Equestrian Statue of Frederik V, Colonnade and Part of the Moltke Palace 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Copenhagen: View of the Amalienborg Palace Showing the Schack Palace, Equestrian Statue of Frederik V, Colonnade and Part of the Moltke Palace’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 58 Recto
Copenhagen: View of the Amalienborg Palace Showing the Schack Palace, Equestrian Statue of Frederik V, Colonnade and Part of the Moltke Palace 1835
D31134
Turner Bequest CCCVII 58
Pencil on cream laid paper, 89 x 162 mm
Watermarked with a beehive surrounded by garlands and bees
Inscribed in red ink by Ruskin ‘58’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCCVII–58’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is a view of the Amalienborg, a complex of four royal palaces in Copenhagen. Here Turner depicts the south-eastern Schack Palace (named after Countess Anne Sophie Schack), the equestrian statue of King Frederik V (1723–66), the colonnade, and part of the Moltke Palace (originally built for the Lord High Steward Adam Gottlob Moltke).1
For other drawings of Copenhagen see Tate D30824–D30829, D30832–D30833, D30859, D30861, D30873, D30881, D30883, D30887, D31120–D31137; Turner Bequest CCCV 2–5, 6a–7, 20, 21, 27, 31, 32, 34, CCCVII 51–59a.

Alice Rylance-Watson
May 2015

1
‘Amalienborg’, Kongehuset, accessed 23 June 2015, http://kongehuset.dk/english/palaces/amalienborg/amalienborg

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Copenhagen: View of the Amalienborg Palace Showing the Schack Palace, Equestrian Statue of Frederik V, Colonnade and Part of the Moltke Palace 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-copenhagen-view-of-the-amalienborg-palace-showing-the-schack-r1187009, accessed 26 April 2024.