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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Christianshavn with Nyholms Hovedvagt, the Rigging Shears and a Boat out of the Water (in Two Instalments) 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Christianshavn with Nyholms Hovedvagt, the Rigging Shears and a Boat out of the Water (in Two Instalments)’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 57 Verso
Christianshavn with Nyholms Hovedvagt, the Rigging Shears and a Boat out of the Water (in Two Instalments) 1835
D31133
Turner Bequest CCCVII 57 a
Pencil on cream laid paper, 89 x 162 mm
Watermarked with a beehive surrounded by garlands and bees
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is a prospect of Christianshavn in Copenhagen, rendered in two instalments. In the uppermost section is Nyholms Hovedvagt, the guardhouse constructed as part of the Nyholm Naval Base. The building has a distinctive baroque tower topped with a large crown. Also visible are the rigging shears and a boat raised out of the Harbour waters for repair. In the lower section Turner depicts docked vessels.
For other drawings of Copenhagen see Tate D30824–D30829, D30832–D30833, D30859, D30861, D30873, D30881, D30883, D30887, D31120–D31137; Turner Bequest CCCV 2–5, 6a–7, 20, 21, 27, 31, 32, 34, CCCVII 51–59a.

Alice Rylance-Watson
May 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Christianshavn with Nyholms Hovedvagt, the Rigging Shears and a Boat out of the Water (in Two Instalments) 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-christianshavn-with-nyholms-hovedvagt-the-rigging-shears-and-r1187008, accessed 30 June 2024.