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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Copenhagen: The South-West and North-West Sides of Kongens Nytorv: The King's Theatre, Ericsens Palace, St Nicholas' Tower, Hôtel du Grand Nord; Hôtel d'Angleterre and Hovedvagten 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Copenhagen: The South-West and North-West Sides of Kongens Nytorv: The King's Theatre, Ericsens Palace, St Nicholas' Tower, Hôtel du Grand Nord; Hôtel d'Angleterre and Hovedvagten’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 27 Recto:
Copenhagen: The South-West and North-West Sides of Kongens Nytorv: The King's Theatre, Ericsens Palace, St Nicholas' Tower, Hôtel du Grand Nord; Hôtel d'Angleterre and Hovedvagten 1835
D30873
Turner Bequest CCCV 27
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’
Inscribed in red ink by Ruskin ‘27’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCCV–27’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
These are drawings of Copenhagen and its principal square the Kongens Nytorv. Turner depicts the south-west and north-west sides of the square, recording the King’s Theatre, St Nicholas’ Tower, the Hotels Grand Nord and d’Angleterre and the Hovedvagten.
For other drawings of Copenhagen see Tate D30824–D30829, D30832–D30833, D30859, D30861, D30873, D30881, D30883, D30887; Turner Bequest CCCV 2–5, 6a–7, 20, 21, 27, 31, 32, 34.

Alice Rylance-Watson
April 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Copenhagen: The South-West and North-West Sides of Kongens Nytorv: The King's Theatre, Ericsens Palace, St Nicholas' Tower, Hôtel du Grand Nord; Hôtel d'Angleterre and Hovedvagten 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-copenhagen-the-south-west-and-north-west-sides-of-kongens-r1187251, accessed 30 June 2024.