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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Copenhagen: The Colonnade of the Amalienborg Palace from the Amaliegade with the Equestrian Statue of Frederik V Seen Beyond It and the Side of the Schack Palace on the Right 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Copenhagen: The Colonnade of the Amalienborg Palace from the Amaliegade with the Equestrian Statue of Frederik V Seen Beyond It and the Side of the Schack Palace on the Right’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 58 Verso
Copenhagen: The Colonnade of the Amalienborg Palace from the Amaliegade with the Equestrian Statue of Frederik V Seen Beyond It and the Side of the Schack Palace on the Right 1835
D31135
Turner Bequest CCCVII 58 a
Pencil on cream laid paper, 89 x 162 mm
Watermarked with a beehive surrounded by garlands and bees
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘4 Col’ top left
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is a view of the Amalienborg at Copenhagen. Here Turner depicts the Colonnade with the equestrian statue of King Frederik V beyond it, and at right Schack Palace. The artist has inscribed ‘4 Col’ above the columns of the Colonnade.
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, ‘Copenhagen: The Colonnade of the Amalienborg Palace from the Amaliegade with the Equestrian Statue of Frederik V Seen Beyond It and the Side of the Schack Palace on the Right 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-copenhagen-the-colonnade-of-the-amalienborg-palace-from-the-r1187010, accessed 19 April 2024.