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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Hamburg: The Niederhafen from the West with the Spire of the Michaeliskirche 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Hamburg: The Niederhafen from the West with the Spire of the Michaeliskirche’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 19 Verso:
Hamburg: The Niederhafen from the West with the Spire of the Michaeliskirche 1835
D30858
Turner Bequest CCCV 19 a
Pencil on white laid writing paper, 92 x 155 mm
Partial Watermark: orb ornamented with laurel leaves
Inscribed ‘Al’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is a westerly prospect of the Niederhafen or ‘Lower Port’, situated on the northern banks of the River Elbe in Hamburg, Germany. The spire of St Michael’s Church (Michaeliskirche) is at centre.
For more sketches of Hamburg see Tate D30842–D30860, D30862–D30870, D30872, D30874–D30880, D30882–D30886; Turner Bequest CCCV 11a–20a, 21a–25a, 26a, 27a–30a, 31a–33a.

Alice Rylance-Watson
April 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Hamburg: The Niederhafen from the West with the Spire of the Michaeliskirche 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-hamburg-the-niederhafen-from-the-west-with-the-spire-of-the-r1187236, accessed 27 April 2024.