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 ... > Copenhagen to Dresden Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Dresden: The Elbe near the Brühl Terrace, Looking Downstream to the Bridge, with Figures under Trees; Copenhagen: (2) Equestrian Statue of Frederik V in the Amalienborg; (3) A Female Nude (?Statue in the Schack Palace) 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Dresden: The Elbe near the Brühl Terrace, Looking Downstream to the Bridge, with Figures under Trees; Copenhagen: (2) Equestrian Statue of Frederik V in the Amalienborg; (3) A Female Nude (?Statue in the Schack Palace)’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 59 Recto
Dresden: The Elbe near the Brühl Terrace, Looking Downstream to the Bridge, with Figures under Trees; Copenhagen: (2) Equestrian Statue of Frederik V in the Amalienborg; (3) A Female Nude (?Statue in the Schack Palace) 1835
D31136
Turner Bequest CCCVII 59
Pencil on cream laid paper, 162 x 89 mm
Watermarked with a beehive surrounded by garlands and bees
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘[?Nymph] of Lippe | Amalie | Palazzo’ bottom right descending
Inscribed in red ink by Ruskin ‘59’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCCVII–59’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The upper view is rendered in accordance with the foliation and shows Dresden’s Brühl Terrace, overlooking the River Elbe (see Tate D30296–D30303, D30896–D30900, D31024–D31042; Turner Bequest CCCI 1–7, CCCVI 6a–9, CCCVII 3–12).
The other sketches are produced with the book turned horizontally and depict aspects of Copenhagen. At centre is the equestrian statue of King Frederik V (1723–66), situated in the Amalienborg Palace courtyard. Turner has inscribed ‘[?Nymph] of Lippe | Amalie | Palazzo’ at bottom right, above a section of a female nude.
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, ‘Dresden: The Elbe near the Brühl Terrace, Looking Downstream to the Bridge, with Figures under Trees; Copenhagen: (2) Equestrian Statue of Frederik V in the Amalienborg; (3) A Female Nude (?Statue in the Schack Palace) 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-dresden-the-elbe-near-the-bruhl-terrace-looking-downstream-r1187011, accessed 22 November 2024.