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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Copenhagen from the Sound; Copenhagen: Two Views of Rosenborg Palace from just inside the Main Entrance on Oster Voldgade, Looking North, Looking South 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Copenhagen from the Sound; Copenhagen: Two Views of Rosenborg Palace from just inside the Main Entrance on Oster Voldgade, Looking North, Looking South’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 7 Recto:
Copenhagen from the Sound; Copenhagen: Two Views of Rosenborg Palace from just inside the Main Entrance on Oster Voldgade, Looking North, Looking South 1835
D30833
Turner Bequest CCCV 7
Pencil on glazed white wove hand-coated card, 155 x 92 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘B[...]’ towards bottom right
Inscribed in red ink by Ruskin ‘7’ bottom right (very faded)
Stamped in black ‘CCCV–7’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
These are detailed studies of Rosenborg Palace, a castle constructed in the early seventeenth century as a summerhouse for Christian IV. Here Turner pictures it from inside the main entrance on the Øster Voldgade, with one sketch showing a northerly aspect and the other a southerly.
Turner has also rendered a cursory sketch of Copenhagen from the Øresund or Sound at the uppermost register.
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 from the Sound; Copenhagen: Two Views of Rosenborg Palace from just inside the Main Entrance on Oster Voldgade, Looking North, Looking South 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-from-the-sound-copenhagen-two-views-of-rosenborg-r1187211, accessed 24 April 2024.