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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Berlin: View Eastwards along the Spree to the Waisenhauskirche and Waisenbrücke; Procession of Carriages on The Kreuzberg with the City Centre in the Distance 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Berlin: View Eastwards along the Spree to the Waisenhauskirche and Waisenbrücke; Procession of Carriages on The Kreuzberg with the City Centre in the Distance’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 21 Recto
Berlin: View Eastwards along the Spree to the Waisenhauskirche and Waisenbrücke; Procession of Carriages on The Kreuzberg with the City Centre in the Distance
D31062
Turner Bequest CCCVII 22
Pencil on cream laid paper, 89 x 162 mm
Watermark double ‘X’ mark
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘[...]’ bottom right; ‘Green’ centre left (inverted)
Inscribed in red ink by Ruskin ‘22’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCCVII–22’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The rear sketch shows Berlin looking along the River Spree towards the Waisenhauskirche (Church of the Orphanage) and the Waisenbrücke (Orphan’s Bridge). Above it is a prospect of Berlin taken from Kreuzberg, a district to the south of the city centre. The foot of the Kreuzberg Liberation Monument is visible at top left (see Tate D31058; Turner Bequest CCCVII 20). A procession of carriages navigates the winding road leading to and from the city centre in the foreground.
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 Eastwards along the Spree to the Waisenhauskirche and Waisenbrücke; Procession of Carriages on The Kreuzberg with the City Centre in the Distance 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-eastwards-along-the-spree-to-the-r1186935, accessed 20 September 2024.