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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1830-35 Annual tourist > Northern Germany, the Elbe and Prague ... > Copenhagen to Dresden Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Berlin: The Museum from outside the Eosander Portal with the Sclossfreiheit (Left) and Schloss (Right); Museum and Domkirche; Domkirche; West Front of the Schloss with the Eosander Portal from the Eastern End of the Schlossbrücke 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Berlin: The Museum from outside the Eosander Portal with the Sclossfreiheit (Left) and Schloss (Right); Museum and Domkirche; Domkirche; West Front of the Schloss with the Eosander Portal from the Eastern End of the Schlossbrücke’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
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Berlin: The Museum from outside the Eosander Portal with the Sclossfreiheit (Left) and Schloss (Right); Museum and Domkirche; Domkirche; West Front of the Schloss with the Eosander Portal from the Eastern End of the Schlossbrücke 1835
D31075
Turner Bequest CCCVII 28 a
Pencil on cream laid paper, 89 x 162 mm
Watermark ‘cfw & s’
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Ionic’ centre towards rear; ‘Cor’ top centre
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the sketchbook orientated to landscape Turner has rendered a study of the Eosander Portal, the entrance to the western facade of Berlin’s palace (Schloss). Details of the Portal’s archway and Corinthian capitals (inscribed ‘Cor’) are recorded to the top left.
The other sketches show the Altes Museum, Schlossfreiheit, and Domkirche (Cathedral). ‘Ionic’ is inscribed by the entablature of the Cathedral to describe the order of columns in the portico.
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 Museum from outside the Eosander Portal with the Sclossfreiheit (Left) and Schloss (Right); Museum and Domkirche; Domkirche; West Front of the Schloss with the Eosander Portal from the Eastern End of the Schlossbrücke 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-museum-from-outside-the-eosander-portal-with-the-r1186948, accessed 20 April 2024.