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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The Geldersekade, Rotterdam 1835

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Geldersekade, Rotterdam’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 28 Verso:
The Geldersekade, Rotterdam 1835
D32498
Turner Bequest CCCXXI 28 a
Pencil on off-white laid paper, 153 x 95 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Here Turner depicts the Geldersekade, a street on the banks of the New Maas in the Old Harbour of Rotterdam. Vessels with their sails raised are moored for loading and offloading casks. The Beursbrug Bridge can be seen at left, leading towards the Beurs or Stock Exchange building.

Alice Rylance-Watson
April 2016

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘The Geldersekade, Rotterdam 1835 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 2016, 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-the-geldersekade-rotterdam-r1187312, accessed 11 May 2024.