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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Berlin: View Westwards along the Spree to the Waisenbrücke, the Waisenhauskirche and Marienkirche, with the New and French Churches and Nikolaikirche in the Distance 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Berlin: View Westwards along the Spree to the Waisenbrücke, the Waisenhauskirche and Marienkirche, with the New and French Churches and Nikolaikirche in the Distance’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 17 Recto
Berlin: View Westwards along the Spree to the Waisenbrücke, the Waisenhauskirche and Marienkirche, with the New and French Churches and Nikolaikirche in the Distance 1835
D31054
Turner Bequest CCCVII 18
Pencil on cream laid paper, 89 x 162 mm
Watermark double ‘X’ mark
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘3’ top left; ‘Light’, ‘Mar’ top right
Inscribed in red ink by Ruskin ‘18’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCCVII–18’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is a prospect of Berlin looking westwards along the River Spree. At right is the Waisenbrücke, the Waisenhauskirche (The Orphan’s Bridge and Church of the Orphanage) and Marienkirche. Nikolaikirche can be seen in the distance with the domed Neue Kirche (New Church) and French Church. Turner has inscribed the number ‘3’ at top left and the words ‘Light’ and ‘Mar’ (against the Marienkirche) at top right.
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 Westwards along the Spree to the Waisenbrücke, the Waisenhauskirche and Marienkirche, with the New and French Churches and Nikolaikirche in the Distance 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-along-the-spree-to-the-waisenbrucke-r1186927, accessed 21 September 2024.