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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1830-35 Annual tourist > Northern Germany, the Elbe and Prague ... > Hamburg and Copenhagen Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Four Sketches of Danish Coastline 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Four Sketches of Danish Coastline’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 9 Recto:
Four Sketches of Danish Coastline 1835
D30837
Turner Bequest CCCV 9
Pencil on white laid writing paper, 92 x 155 mm
Partial Watermark: orb ornamented with laurel leaves
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Falster’ centre towards right, ‘Waihburg’
Inscribed in red ink by Ruskin ‘9’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCCV–9’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
These sketches show coastline or islands in Denmark. Over four hundred islands comprise the Danish archipelago, some of which Turner would have seen as he sailed from Kiel in Germany to Copenhagen. At centre Turner depicts ‘Falster’, an island in south-eastern Denmark. Turner has rendered a towered building, possibly a church, at top right, inscribing ‘Waihburg’ below it.

Alice Rylance-Watson
April 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Four Sketches of Danish Coastline 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-four-sketches-of-danish-coastline-r1187215, accessed 21 May 2024.