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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1830-35 Annual tourist > Northern Germany, the Elbe and Prague ... > Hamburg and Copenhagen Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Hamburg: The Elbe Shore, with Boats 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Hamburg: The Elbe Shore, with Boats’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 22 Recto:
Hamburg: The Elbe Shore, with Boats 1835
D30863
Turner Bequest CCCV 22
Pencil on white laid writing paper, 92 x 155 mm
Partial Watermark: orb ornamented with laurel leaves
Inscribed in red ink by Ruskin ‘22’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCCV–22’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Here Turner pictures the River Elbe at the port of Hamburg, Germany. Sailing boats are gathered in the foreground and middle distance.
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 Elbe Shore, with Boats 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-elbe-shore-with-boats-r1187241, accessed 26 April 2024.