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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Berlin: View along Taubenstrasse with the Schauspielhaus (Left) and New Church (Right); Urn on the Church's Roof 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Berlin: View along Taubenstrasse with the Schauspielhaus (Left) and New Church (Right); Urn on the Church's Roof’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
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Berlin: View along Taubenstrasse with the Schauspielhaus (Left) and New Church (Right); Urn on the Church's Roof 1835
D31063
Turner Bequest CCCVII 22 a
Pencil on cream laid paper, 89 x 162 mm
Watermark double ‘X’ mark
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Here Turner has produced a view of Berlin’s Taubenstrasse, with Schauspielhaus at left and Neue Kirche (New Church) at right. There is a separate detail of an urn on the Church’s roof 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 along Taubenstrasse with the Schauspielhaus (Left) and New Church (Right); Urn on the Church's Roof 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-along-taubenstrasse-with-the-schauspielhaus-left-r1186936, accessed 26 April 2024.