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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Hamburg: The Elbe Shore, Looking towards the City 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Hamburg: The Elbe Shore, Looking towards the City’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 11 Verso:
Hamburg: The Elbe Shore, Looking towards the City 1835
D30842
Turner Bequest CCCV 11 a
Pencil on white laid writing paper, 92 x 155 mm
Partial Watermark: orb ornamented with laurel leaves
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This rough sketch shows the port city of Hamburg, Germany. Turner arrived at Hamburg on Tuesday 1 September 1835, entering the city via the River Elbe which is depicted here.
For more sketches of Hamburg see Tate D30842–D30860, D30862–D30870, D30872, D30874–D30880, D30882–D30886; Turner Bequest CCCV 11a–20a, 21a–25a, 26a, 27a–30a, 31a–33a.

Alice Rylance-Watson
April 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Hamburg: The Elbe Shore, Looking towards the City 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-hamburg-the-elbe-shore-looking-towards-the-city-r1187220, accessed 21 May 2024.