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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Copenhagen: The Knippelsbro and Holmens Church; Copenhagen: View from the Eastern End of Borsegade with the Exchange, Christiansborg Palace, Christian IV Bridge and Holmens Church 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Copenhagen: The Knippelsbro and Holmens Church; Copenhagen: View from the Eastern End of Borsegade with the Exchange, Christiansborg Palace, Christian IV Bridge and Holmens Church’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 2 Verso:
Copenhagen: The Knippelsbro and Holmens Church; Copenhagen: View from the Eastern End of Borsegade with the Exchange, Christiansborg Palace, Christian IV Bridge and Holmens Church 1835
D30825
Turner Bequest CCCV 2 a
Pencil on white laid writing paper, 92 x 155 mm
Partial Watermark: orb ornamented with laurel leaves
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Here Turner has rendered two views of Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark.
The main drawing shows the eastern end of the Børsgade with Copenhagen Stock Exchange (Børsen) at left, Christianborg Palace, Christian IV Bridge beyond and Holmens Church at right. The Børsen was built by Christian IV in 1619–40 and is celebrated for its striking spire: an elegantly tapering coil comprised of four dragons tails twined together reaching a needle-sharp point.
The other sketch shows the Knippelsbro and Holmens Church on the banks of the Børsgraven canal.
For other drawings of Copenhagen see Tate D30824–D30829, D30832–D30833, D30859, D30861, D30873, D30881, D30883, D30887; Turner Bequest CCCV 2–5, 6a–7, 20, 21, 27, 31, 32, 34.

Alice Rylance-Watson
April 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Copenhagen: The Knippelsbro and Holmens Church; Copenhagen: View from the Eastern End of Borsegade with the Exchange, Christiansborg Palace, Christian IV Bridge and Holmens Church 1835 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 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-knippelsbro-and-holmens-church-copenhagen-r1187203, accessed 25 April 2024.