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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Berlin: View Southwards along the Spree towards the Museum, Schloss and Schlossbrücke; Berlin: View Looking Eastwards along Unter den Linden, with the Zeughaus (Left) and Blücher Statue and Opera (Right) 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Berlin: View Southwards along the Spree towards the Museum, Schloss and Schlossbrücke; Berlin: View Looking Eastwards along Unter den Linden, with the Zeughaus (Left) and Blücher Statue and Opera (Right)’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
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Berlin: View Southwards along the Spree towards the Museum, Schloss and Schlossbrücke; Berlin: View Looking Eastwards along Unter den Linden, with the Zeughaus (Left) and Blücher Statue and Opera (Right) 1835
D31049
Turner Bequest CCCVII 15 a
Pencil on cream laid paper, 89 x 162 mm
Watermarked with a beehive surrounded by garlands and bees
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The principal view shows Berlin’s Unter den Linden Boulevard, looking towards the River Spree, Altes Museum, Schloss, and Schlossbrücke. The squared-off view at top left (orientated inversely to the principal sketch) shows the Unter den Linden again, this time looking eastwards towards the Zeughaus (Old Arsenal), General Blücher’s statue and the Opera House.
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 Southwards along the Spree towards the Museum, Schloss and Schlossbrücke; Berlin: View Looking Eastwards along Unter den Linden, with the Zeughaus (Left) and Blücher Statue and Opera (Right) 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-southwards-along-the-spree-towards-the-museum-r1186922, accessed 16 April 2024.