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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
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 with Gabled Houses and Trees 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Hamburg: View with Gabled Houses and Trees’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 15 Recto:
Hamburg: View with Gabled Houses and Trees 1835
D30849
Turner Bequest CCCV 15
Pencil on white laid writing paper, 92 x 155 mm
Inscribed in red ink by Ruskin ‘15’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCCV–15’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This cursory sketch depicts a scene in Hamburg where Turner stayed in the first days of September 1835.
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 with Gabled Houses and Trees 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-with-gabled-houses-and-trees-r1187227, accessed 21 May 2024.