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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Berlin: The Oranienburg Gate; Horses Drawing a Laden Cart 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Berlin: The Oranienburg Gate; Horses Drawing a Laden Cart’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 31 Recto
Berlin: The Oranienburg Gate; Horses Drawing a Laden Cart 1835
D31082
Turner Bequest CCCVII 32
Pencil on cream laid paper, 89 x 162 mm
Watermarked with a beehive surrounded by garlands and bees
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Doriannburger Thor’ top centre towards right
Inscribed in red ink by Ruskin ‘32’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCCVII–32’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is a sketch of Oranienburg Tor, one of the fourteen stone gates which fortified Berlin. Turner inscribes Oranienburg Tor as ‘Doriannburger Tor’ in his note above the drawing. The artist has also rendered a jotting of a horse-drawn cart loaded with cargo.
For other sketches of Berlin see Tate D21045–D31082; Turner Bequest CCCVII 13a–32.

Alice Rylance-Watson
May 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Berlin: The Oranienburg Gate; Horses Drawing a Laden Cart 1835 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 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-berlin-the-oranienburg-gate-horses-drawing-a-laden-cart-r1186955, accessed 16 July 2025.