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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Three Sketches of Fortifications near Copenhagen; Sketch 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Three Sketches of Fortifications near Copenhagen; Sketch’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 56 Verso
Three Sketches of Fortifications near Copenhagen; Sketch 1835
D31131
Turner Bequest CCCVII 56 a
Pencil on cream laid paper, 89 x 162 mm
Watermarked with a beehive surrounded by garlands and bees
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘[...]’ bottom right descending
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
These are rough sketches of the fortifications at Copenhagen, taken from the Øresund. A large sailing ship is at centre.
At right is a separate sketch, possibly of a vessel of some sort, next to an illegible inscription. These have been rendered with the book turned upright.
For other drawings of Copenhagen see Tate D30824–D30829, D30832–D30833, D30859, D30861, D30873, D30881, D30883, D30887, D31120–D31137; Turner Bequest CCCV 2–5, 6a–7, 20, 21, 27, 31, 32, 34, CCCVII 51–59a.

Alice Rylance-Watson
May 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Three Sketches of Fortifications near Copenhagen; Sketch 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-three-sketches-of-fortifications-near-copenhagen-sketch-r1187006, accessed 18 April 2024.