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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Berlin: View on the Spree with Houses, Boats and Figures 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Berlin: View on the Spree with Houses, Boats and Figures’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 15 Verso
Berlin: View on the Spree with Houses, Boats and Figures 1835
D31051
Turner Bequest CCCVII 16 a
Pencil on cream laid paper, 89 x 162 mm
Watermark ‘cfw & s’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is a roughly rendered view of the River Spree in Berlin. Boats are moored at the quayside and houses line the waterway at either side.
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 on the Spree with Houses, Boats and Figures 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-on-the-spree-with-houses-boats-and-figures-r1186924, accessed 19 April 2024.