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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Dresden: The Neumarkt from the End of Moritzstrasse, Showing the Johanneum, Hotel Stadt Berlin, Frauenkirche and Türkenbrunnen 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Dresden: The Neumarkt from the End of Moritzstrasse, Showing the Johanneum, Hotel Stadt Berlin, Frauenkirche and Türkenbrunnen’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 4 Recto
Dresden: The Neumarkt from the End of Moritzstrasse, Showing the Johanneum, Hotel Stadt Berlin, Frauenkirche and Türkenbrunnen 1835
D31028
Turner Bequest CCCVII 5
Pencil on cream laid paper, 89 x 162 mm
Watermarked with a beehive surrounded by garlands and bees
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘11’, ‘7’, ‘5’ top centre over the bays of the hotel; ‘4’, ‘4’, ‘3’, ‘6’ top right, ‘Pump’ ‘[...]’ ‘W[...]’ bottom right
Inscribed in red ink by Ruskin ‘5’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCCVII–5’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This prospect of Dresden was taken at the end of the Moritzstrasse looking towards Neumarkt, the city’s principal public square. From left to right is the Johanneum (formerly the royal mews and later converted into a picture gallery for the royal collection), the Hotel Stadt Berlin, the Frauenkirche, and the Türkenbrunnen or ‘Turk’s Fountain’ with a statue of the goddess Victoria at its centre.1
Turner has inscribed the numbers ‘11’, ‘7’, ‘5’ over the bays of the Hotel Stadt Berlin and ‘4’, ‘4’, ‘3’, ‘6’ on the building directly in front of the Frauenkirche. There are also the inscriptions ‘Pump’ ‘[...]’ ‘W[...]’ before the fountain.
For more sketches of Dresden see Tate D30296–D30303, D30896–D30900, D31024–D31042; Turner Bequest CCCI 1–7, CCCVI 6a–9, CCCVII 3–12.
1
‘Quarter I’, Neumarkt Dresden, accessed 7 May 2015, http://www.neumarkt-dresden.de/english/quarter1.html
Technical notes:
A modern paper stub has been inserted between this page and Tate D31027; Turner Bequest CCCVII 4a.

Alice Rylance-Watson
May 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Dresden: The Neumarkt from the End of Moritzstrasse, Showing the Johanneum, Hotel Stadt Berlin, Frauenkirche and Türkenbrunnen 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-neumarkt-from-the-end-of-moritzstrasse-showing-r1186901, accessed 22 November 2024.