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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Copenhagen: View from the Christian IV Bridge with the Knippelsbro, Exchange, Christiansborg Palace, Holmens Church and St Nicholas' Tower 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Copenhagen: View from the Christian IV Bridge with the Knippelsbro, Exchange, Christiansborg Palace, Holmens Church and St Nicholas' Tower’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 3 Recto:
Copenhagen: View from the Christian IV Bridge with the Knippelsbro, Exchange, Christiansborg Palace, Holmens Church and St Nicholas' Tower 1835
D30826
Turner Bequest CCCV 3
Pencil on white laid writing paper, 92 x 155 mm
Watermark ‘Jordan’
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘C[...]’ top centre
Inscribed in red ink by Ruskin ‘3’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCCV–3’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This view of Copenhagen was taken on the Christian IV Bridge. Knippelsbro Bridge is in the foreground and behind it, at centre, is the Stock Exchange building with its celebrated coiled spire. Holmens Church and the tower of St Nicholas’ Church are in the middle distance at right.
For other drawings of Copenhagen see Tate D30824–D30829, D30832–D30833, D30859, D30861, D30873, D30881, D30883, D30887; Turner Bequest CCCV 2–5, 6a–7, 20, 21, 27, 31, 32, 34.

Alice Rylance-Watson
April 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Copenhagen: View from the Christian IV Bridge with the Knippelsbro, Exchange, Christiansborg Palace, Holmens Church and St Nicholas' Tower 1835 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 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-from-the-christian-iv-bridge-with-the-r1187204, accessed 21 May 2024.