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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Berlin: The Schlossplatz from Königstrasse with the Statue of the Great Elector (Left) and the South Façade of the Schloss (Right); Small Detail in the Sky 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Berlin: The Schlossplatz from Königstrasse with the Statue of the Great Elector (Left) and the South Façade of the Schloss (Right); Small Detail in the Sky’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
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Berlin: The Schlossplatz from Königstrasse with the Statue of the Great Elector (Left) and the South Façade of the Schloss (Right); Small Detail in the Sky 1835
D31077
Turner Bequest CCCVII 29 a
Pencil on cream laid paper, 89 x 162 mm
Watermark double ‘X’ mark
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘[...] top left; ‘3’, ‘3’, ‘3’ centre; ‘4’, ‘8’ centre right; ‘O[...]’ centre right towards top
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Here Turner shows Berlin’s Schlossplatz, the Langebrücke and the equestrian statue of Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg, in the foreground. The southern façade of the Schloss is recorded at right. The inscriptions ‘3’, ‘3’, ‘3’ are written above a distant building at centre and the numbers ‘4’ and ‘8’ against the bays of the Schloss.
For other sketches of Berlin see Tate D21045–D31082; Turner Bequest CCCVII 13a–32.

Alice Rylance-Watson
May 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Berlin: The Schlossplatz from Königstrasse with the Statue of the Great Elector (Left) and the South Façade of the Schloss (Right); Small Detail in the Sky 1835 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 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-berlin-the-schlossplatz-from-konigstrasse-with-the-statue-of-r1186950, accessed 15 January 2025.