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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Sketches, Including One of the Spire of the Church of Our Saviour, Copenhagen; German Words 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Sketches, Including One of the Spire of the Church of Our Saviour, Copenhagen; German Words’ 1835 (Inside back cover of sketchbook)
Inside back cover of sketchbook
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Inside Back Cover
Sketches, Including One of the Spire of the Church of Our Saviour, Copenhagen; German Words 1835
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Pencil and pen and ink on cream laid paper, 89 x 162 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Harfen [...]’, ‘Fish’, ‘K[...]’ far left ascending; ‘Speise Tafel’ left ascending; ‘[...] P[...]’ top left
Signed by H.S. Trimmer and Charles Turner in black ink and inscribed ‘No 399 – | Contains 57 Leaves | Pencil Sketches –’ centre right ascending
Signed in pencil by Charles Locke Eastlake ‘C.L.E.’ and John Prescott Knight ‘JPK’ far right ascending
Inscribed in pencil ‘CCCVII’ bottom right ascending
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The sketches on this pastedown show a figure of a woman wearing a bonnet, the spire of the Church of Our Saviour at Copenhagen, a distant town with buildings and windmills, and a harbour with moored sailing boats. The inscriptions ‘Harfen’ (i.e. ‘havn’, the word for ‘harbour’ in Danish), ‘Fish’ and ‘Speise Tafel’ (‘menu’ in German) are rendered around the sketches.
The signatures and inscriptions Henry Scott Trimmer, Charles Turner, Charles Locke Eastlake and John Prescott Knight (executors of Turner’s will) are also inscribed.

Alice Rylance-Watson
May 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Sketches, Including One of the Spire of the Church of Our Saviour, Copenhagen; German Words 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-sketches-including-one-of-the-spire-of-the-church-of-our-r1187013, accessed 27 April 2024.