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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Two Sketches of Copenhagen from the Sound, One Showing the Tower of the Church of Our Saviour 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Two Sketches of Copenhagen from the Sound, One Showing the Tower of the Church of Our Saviour’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 3 Verso:
Two Sketches of Copenhagen from the Sound, One Showing the Tower of the Church of Our Saviour 1835
D30827
Turner Bequest CCCV 3 a
Pencil on white laid writing paper, 155 x 92 mm
Watermark ‘Jordan’
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘[...]’ top centre towards middle
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
These sketches depicting Copenhagen extend onto folio opposite (Tate D30828; Turner Bequest CCCV 4). Both are wide-angle views of the city taken from the Øresund or Sound. The Church of Our Saviour, famed for its helix or corkscrew spire, is also visible.
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, ‘Two Sketches of Copenhagen from the Sound, One Showing the Tower of the Church of Our Saviour 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-two-sketches-of-copenhagen-from-the-sound-one-showing-the-r1187205, accessed 21 May 2024.