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: ?On the Stintfang, with Figures in the Foreground 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Hamburg: ?On the Stintfang, with Figures in the Foreground’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 32 Verso:
Hamburg: ?On the Stintfang, with Figures in the Foreground 1835
D30884
Turner Bequest CCCV 32 a
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’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This sketch probably depicts the Stintfang, an area of parkland overlooking the Elbe in Hamburg. Trees rendered with loose and fluid line delineate the parameters of the Stintfang from the quayside beyond; ships’ masts can be seen in the distance and figures people the foreground.
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: ?On the Stintfang, with 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-on-the-stintfang-with-figures-in-the-foreground-r1187261, accessed 20 September 2024.