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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8

Joseph Mallord William Turner Berlin: The Statue of Blücher, Domes of St Hedwigskirche and East Side of the Opera from Unter den Linden 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 25 Recto
Berlin: The Statue of Blücher, Domes of St Hedwigskirche and East Side of the Opera from Unter den Linden 1835
D31070
Turner Bequest CCCVII 26
Pencil on cream laid paper, 89 x 162 mm
Watermarked with a beehive surrounded by garlands and bees
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Sold P[...]’ bottom centre towards left
Inscribed in red ink by Ruskin ‘26’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCCVII–26’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is a statue of General Blücher taken from the Unter den Linden in Berlin (see Tate D31069; Turner Bequest CCCVII 25a). Behind it can be seen the domes of St Hedwigskirche and the eastern side of the Opera House.
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 Statue of Blücher, Domes of St Hedwigskirche and East Side of the Opera from Unter den Linden 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-statue-of-blucher-domes-of-st-hedwigskirche-and-r1186943, accessed 29 March 2024.