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 Hamburg: View in the Binnenhafen 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Hamburg: View in the Binnenhafen’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 13 Recto:
Hamburg: View in the Binnenhafen 1835
D30845
Turner Bequest CCCV 13
Pencil on white laid writing paper, 92 x 155 mm
Partial Watermark: orb ornamented with laurel leaves
Inscribed in red ink by Ruskin ‘13’ bottom right (very faded)
Stamped in black ‘CCCV–13’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Here Turner has rendered a prospect of the Binnenhafen, the oldest part of Hamburg port. Boats are moored at the quayside and two figures can be seen in the foreground at right.
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: View in the Binnenhafen 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-view-in-the-binnenhafen-r1187223, accessed 21 May 2024.