Joseph Mallord William Turner

Berlin: View Eastwards along the Spree to the Waisenhauskirche and the Waisenbrücke, with Boats in the Foreground

1835

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Artist: Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of: Copenhagen to Dresden Sketchbook
Medium: Graphite on paper
Dimensions: Support: 89 × 162 mm
Collection: Tate
Acquisition: Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference: D31052
Turner Bequest CCCVII 17

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Here Turner has rendered a view of Berlin looking along the River Spree towards the Waisenhauskirche (Church of the Orphanage) and the Waisenbrücke (Orphan’s Bridge). Boats are moored at the banks of the Spree; Turner has inscribed a note at bottom right reading ‘Neu [R...] | [...] Kolln am Wasser’.

For other sketches of Berlin see Tate D21045–D31082; Turner Bequest CCCVII 13a–32.

Alice Rylance-Watson
May 2015

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Joseph Mallord William Turner

Berlin: View Eastwards along the Spree to the Waisenhauskirche and the Waisenbrücke, with Boats in the Foreground

1835

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Berlin: View Westwards along the Spree to the Waisenbrücke, the Waisenhauskirche and Marienkirche, with the New and French Churches and Nikolaikirche in the Distance

Joseph Mallord William Turner Berlin: View on the Spree with Houses, Boats and Figures

Joseph Mallord William Turner Berlin: View from the Schlossbrücke of the Old Houses of the Schlossfreiheit between the Schloss and the Spreekanal, and the Bauakademie

Joseph Mallord William Turner Berlin: View Eastwards along the Spree to the Waisenhauskirche and Waisenbrücke; Procession of Carriages on The Kreuzberg with the City Centre in the Distance

Joseph Mallord William Turner Berlin: View along Unter den Linden, Looking Westwards from the Corner of the Zeughaus (Continued in the Sky); Berlin: The Schloss and Schlossbrücke from Close to the Zeughaus

Joseph Mallord William Turner View on the Danube with Göttweig Abbey in the Distance and a Boat in the Foreground; Four Sketches of Boats on the Danube

Joseph Mallord William Turner Berlin: View Westwards towards the Königskolonnaden and the Marienkirche; Boats and Figures

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Cologne: The Bridge of Boats and Deutz

Joseph Mallord William Turner Distant Forts at Coblenz, with Boats in the Foreground

Joseph Mallord William Turner Sketches of Three Women; Berlin: View Westwards along the Spree to the Waisenbrücke and Waisenhauskirche

Joseph Mallord William Turner The Leopoldsberg above the River Danube with Klosterneuburg in the Distance and a Boat in the Foreground; Klosterneuburg; Boats on the Danube

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Figures; Hills with Windmills, and a River and Boats in the Foreground; Stettin: The Castle and St James’s Church from the North; Coast or River Landscapes with Figures in a Boat

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