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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Berlin: View Westwards towards the Königskolonnaden and the Marienkirche; Boats and Figures 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Berlin: View Westwards towards the Königskolonnaden and the Marienkirche; Boats and Figures’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
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Berlin: View Westwards towards the Königskolonnaden and the Marienkirche; Boats and Figures 1835
D31053
Turner Bequest CCCVII 17 a
Pencil on cream laid paper, 89 x 162 mm
Watermark double ‘X’ mark
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘[?Cart for Hire]’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The principal view shows Berlin looking towards the Königskolonnaden (The King’s Colonnade) at centre and the Church of St Mary at right. The Königskolonnaden is recorded again in more detail on Tate D31055–D31056; Turner Bequest CCCVII 18a–19.1 Turner has inscribed a note which appears to read ‘Carts for Hire’ at the rear of the sketch. The second view, orientated inversely to the principal sketch and rendered parallel to the gutter of the sketchbook, depicts boats and figures on the quayside of the River Spree.
For other sketches of Berlin see Tate D21045–D31082; Turner Bequest CCCVII 13a–32.

Alice Rylance-Watson
May 2015

1
‘Die Königskolonnaden im Heinrich-von-Kleist-Park an der Potsdamer Straße’, Berlin, accessed 29 May 2015, https://www.berlin.de/ba-tempelhof-schoeneberg/organisationseinheit/planen/koeko_start.html

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Berlin: View Westwards towards the Königskolonnaden and the Marienkirche; 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-westwards-towards-the-konigskolonnaden-and-the-r1186926, accessed 20 September 2024.