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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Berlin: The Upper Vestibule of the Museum with the Copy of the Warwick Vase at the Top of the Stairway and the Domkirche and Schloss Seen on the Right through the Museum Colonnade and across the Lustgarten 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Berlin: The Upper Vestibule of the Museum with the Copy of the Warwick Vase at the Top of the Stairway and the Domkirche and Schloss Seen on the Right through the Museum Colonnade and across the Lustgarten’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 30 Recto
Berlin: The Upper Vestibule of the Museum with the Copy of the Warwick Vase at the Top of the Stairway and the Domkirche and Schloss Seen on the Right through the Museum Colonnade and across the Lustgarten 1835
D31080
Turner Bequest CCCVII 31
Pencil on cream laid paper, 89 x 162 mm
Watermark ‘cfw & s’
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Warick V’ bottom left; ‘4’ centre towards left against columns of vestibule; ‘Eingang | zur | gemalde | gall’ top right
Inscribed in red ink by Ruskin ‘31’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCCVII–31’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This sketch shows the portico of the Altes Museum in Berlin. Turner took this sketch from the staircase leading to the upper vestibule of the portico, drawing the view from behind the colonnade looking towards the Lustgarten, Domkirche and Schloss. The rest of the sketch shows the interior of the portico: the stairs upon which Turner stood and a replica of the Warwick Vase on its pedestal (inscribed ‘Warick V’).1
For other sketches of Berlin see Tate D21045–D31082; Turner Bequest CCCVII 13a–32.

Alice Rylance-Watson
May 2015

1
Lyles 1992, p.76 no.57.

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Berlin: The Upper Vestibule of the Museum with the Copy of the Warwick Vase at the Top of the Stairway and the Domkirche and Schloss Seen on the Right through the Museum Colonnade and across the Lustgarten 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-upper-vestibule-of-the-museum-with-the-copy-of-r1186953, accessed 26 April 2024.