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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Hamburg: The Western Prospect from the Stintfang, Looking down the Elbe towards St Pauli, with Gazing Figures in the Foreground 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Hamburg: The Western Prospect from the Stintfang, Looking down the Elbe towards St Pauli, with Gazing Figures in the Foreground’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 28 Recto:
Hamburg: The Western Prospect from the Stintfang, Looking down the Elbe towards St Pauli, with Gazing Figures in the Foreground 1835
D30875
Turner Bequest CCCV 28
Pencil on white laid writing paper, 92 x 155 mm
Partial Watermark: portrait head of Frederick William III in a patterned oval
Inscribed in red ink by Ruskin ‘28’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCCV–28’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This sketch shows Hamburg from a westerly perspective and was taken from the Stintfang, an area of parkland overlooking the port. Figures in the foreground look out towards the River Elbe and the St Pauli district.
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 Western Prospect from the Stintfang, Looking down the Elbe towards St Pauli, with Gazing Figures in the Foreground 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-western-prospect-from-the-stintfang-looking-down-r1187253, accessed 24 September 2024.