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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Berlin: The Gendarmenmarkt from the South, with the New Church, Schauspielhaus and French Church 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Berlin: The Gendarmenmarkt from the South, with the New Church, Schauspielhaus and French Church’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 19 Verso
Berlin: The Gendarmenmarkt from the South, with the New Church, Schauspielhaus and French Church 1835
D31059
Turner Bequest CCCVII 20 a
Pencil on cream laid paper, 89 x 162 mm
Watermarked with a beehive surrounded by garlands and bees
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘6’, ‘6’ top centre towards left; ‘L[...] Houses | [...]’ left centre
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This sketch shows Berlin’s Gendarmenmarkt, taken from a point facing the Neue Kirche. The dome of the Neue Kirche is continued on the folio opposite (Tate D31060; Turner Bequest CCCVII 21). The French Church and Schauspielhaus theatre (now known as the Konzerthaus) can also be seen.
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 Gendarmenmarkt from the South, with the New Church, Schauspielhaus and French Church 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-gendarmenmarkt-from-the-south-with-the-new-church-r1186932, accessed 19 September 2024.