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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Hamburg: The Eastern Prospect from the Stintfang, with the Spire of the Michaeliskirche 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Hamburg: The Eastern Prospect from the Stintfang, with the Spire of the Michaeliskirche’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 25 Recto:
Hamburg: The Eastern Prospect from the Stintfang, with the Spire of the Michaeliskirche 1835
D30869
Turner Bequest CCCV 25
Pencil on white laid writing paper, 92 x 155 mm
Partial Watermark: portrait head of Frederick William III in a patterned oval with ‘fr. wi. diii’
Inscribed in red ink by Ruskin ‘25’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCCV–25’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This cursory sketch depicts Hamburg and its Church of St Michael (Michaeliskirche). Turner has taken this view from a vantage point on the Stintfang, a park which gives onto the River Elbe.
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 Eastern Prospect from the Stintfang, 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-eastern-prospect-from-the-stintfang-with-the-r1187247, accessed 22 September 2024.