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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Hamburg: The Elbe Shore West of the Niederhafen, Looking towards the City 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Hamburg: The Elbe Shore West of the Niederhafen, Looking towards the City’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 21 Verso:
Hamburg: The Elbe Shore West of the Niederhafen, Looking towards the City 1835
D30862
Turner Bequest CCCV 21 a
Pencil on white laid writing paper, 92 x 155 mm
Partial Watermark: orb ornamented with laurel leaves
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Here Turner pictures a leafy bank on the Elbe at Hamburg. Drawing from a vantage point west of the Niederhafen or Lower Port, the view encompasses the city itself and the spires of its numerous churches.
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: The Elbe Shore West of the Niederhafen, Looking towards the City 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-the-elbe-shore-west-of-the-niederhafen-looking-r1187240, accessed 12 May 2025.