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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Berlin: View down Unter den Linden and across the Lustgarten to the Zeughaus, Lustgarten, Fountain, Museum and Domkirche, from the North-Eastern Corner of the Schloss (Detail of Schloss Façade in Sky) 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Berlin: View down Unter den Linden and across the Lustgarten to the Zeughaus, Lustgarten, Fountain, Museum and Domkirche, from the North-Eastern Corner of the Schloss (Detail of Schloss Façade in Sky)’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
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Berlin: View down Unter den Linden and across the Lustgarten to the Zeughaus, Lustgarten, Fountain, Museum and Domkirche, from the North-Eastern Corner of the Schloss (Detail of Schloss Façade in Sky) 1835
D31079
Turner Bequest CCCVII 30 a
Pencil on cream laid paper, 89 x 162 mm
Watermark double ‘X’ mark
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘18’ above the colonnade of the Museum at centre right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is a prospect of the Unter den Linden, a tree-lined boulevard in the centre of Berlin. The Lustgarten, a pleasure garden once part of old palace, is at centre, with the Zeughaus (Arsenal), Altes Museum and Cathedral (Domkirche) surrounding it from left to right. Turner has inscribed the number ‘18’ above the Museum to indicate the exact number of columns which make up its portico; a cross also marks the position of the double staircase within the portico.
There is a separate detail of the Schloss’ façade in the sky at top left.
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: View down Unter den Linden and across the Lustgarten to the Zeughaus, Lustgarten, Fountain, Museum and Domkirche, from the North-Eastern Corner of the Schloss (Detail of Schloss Façade in Sky) 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-view-down-unter-den-linden-and-across-the-lustgarten-r1186952, accessed 19 April 2024.