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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Hamburg: Views from the Alsterglacis towards the Lombardsbrücke with Büsch Monument in Foreground, the Spires of the Georgkirche, Jacobikirche and Petrikirche 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Hamburg: Views from the Alsterglacis towards the Lombardsbrücke with Büsch Monument in Foreground, the Spires of the Georgkirche, Jacobikirche and Petrikirche’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 17 Recto:
Hamburg: Views from the Alsterglacis towards the Lombardsbrücke with Büsch Monument in Foreground, the Spires of the Georgkirche, Jacobikirche and Petrikirche 1835
D30853
Turner Bequest CCCV 17
Pencil on white laid writing paper, 92 x 155 mm
Partial Watermark: orb ornamented with laurel leaves
Inscribed in red ink by Ruskin ‘17’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCCV–17’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The principal sketch shows the Lombardsbrücke (Lombard Bridge) and the Büsch monument (see Tate D30852; Turner Bequest CCCV 16a) in Hamburg, Germany. Turner rendered this view from a vantage point on the Alsterglacis. Seen in the distance at far left is the spire of St George’s Church (the Georgkirche), located in the Altstadt (Old Town) across the waters of the Aussenalster. At right are the spires of St James’ Church and St Peter’s located in the Old Town on the other side of Binnenalster Lake. The same view is repeated in the small detail at top right.
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: Views from the Alsterglacis towards the Lombardsbrücke with Büsch Monument in Foreground, the Spires of the Georgkirche, Jacobikirche and Petrikirche 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-views-from-the-alsterglacis-towards-the-r1187231, accessed 02 July 2025.