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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Berlin: The East Side of the Schloss from the Langebrücke; Female Figure Carrying a Child, Seen from the Rear 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Berlin: The East Side of the Schloss from the Langebrücke; Female Figure Carrying a Child, Seen from the Rear’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 23 Recto
Berlin: The East Side of the Schloss from the Langebrücke; Female Figure Carrying a Child, Seen from the Rear 1835
D31066
Turner Bequest CCCVII 24
Pencil on cream laid paper, 89 x 162 mm
Watermarked with a beehive surrounded by garlands and bees
Inscribed in red ink by Ruskin ‘24’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCCVII–24’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is a view of Berlin’s River Spree taken from a vantage point on the Langebrücke (now Rathausbrücke). At left is the eastern façade of the Berliner Schloss, formerly the residence of the Kings of Prussia.
Turner has also rendered a small sketch of a woman carrying a child; this is orientated with the sketchbook turned in accordance with the foliation.
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 East Side of the Schloss from the Langebrücke; Female Figure Carrying a Child, Seen from the Rear 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-east-side-of-the-schloss-from-the-langebrucke-r1186939, accessed 19 April 2024.