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

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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 Verso:
Hamburg: View in the Binnenhafen 1835
D30846
Turner Bequest CCCV 13 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
Here Turner has rendered a prospect of the Binnenhafen, the oldest part of Hamburg port.
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-r1187224, accessed 22 May 2024.