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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Berlin: The Königskolonnaden from the Königsbrücke 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Berlin: The Königskolonnaden from the Königsbrücke’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 18 Recto
Berlin: The Königskolonnaden from the Königsbrücke 1835
D31056
Turner Bequest CCCVII 19
Pencil on cream laid paper, 89 x 162 mm
Watermark ‘cfw & s’
Inscribed in red ink by Ruskin ‘19’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCCVII–19’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is a study of Berlin’s Königskolonnaden (The King’s Colonnade) taken from a vantage point on the Königsbrücke (see Tate D31055; Turner Bequest CCCVII 18a). There is a separate sketch above which appears to depict figures on a boat on the Spree.
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: The Königskolonnaden from the Königsbrücke 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-the-konigskolonnaden-from-the-konigsbrucke-r1186929, accessed 25 April 2024.