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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Hamburg: View from just outside the Millernthor with the Mill on the Mühlenberg, Nikolaikirche and Michaeliskirche; Sketches of Two Women 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Hamburg: View from just outside the Millernthor with the Mill on the Mühlenberg, Nikolaikirche and Michaeliskirche; Sketches of Two Women’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 25 Verso:
Hamburg: View from just outside the Millernthor with the Mill on the Mühlenberg, Nikolaikirche and Michaeliskirche; Sketches of Two Women 1835
D30870
Turner Bequest CCCV 25 a
Pencil on white laid writing paper, 92 x 155 mm
Partial Watermark: portrait head of Frederick William III in a patterned oval with ‘fr. wi. diii’
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘B’ | ‘Shawl Red’ | ‘Yellow D’ top left
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is a view of Hamburg taken from outside the Millernthor, one of the city gates. A windmill on Mühlenberg hill can be seen at left and the Churches of St Nicholas and St Michael are at centre and right respectively. There are also two cursory jottings of female figures in local dress at top left (see also Tate D30871; Turner Bequest CCCV 26). Turner has inscribed notes on the colours of their outfits: ‘B’ [possibly signifying Blue or Black] | ‘Shawl Red’ | ‘Yellow D[ress]’.
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 from just outside the Millernthor with the Mill on the Mühlenberg, Nikolaikirche and Michaeliskirche; Sketches of Two Women 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-from-just-outside-the-millernthor-with-the-mill-r1187248, accessed 18 April 2024.