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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Hamburg: The Lombardsbrücke with the Windmill on its Right and the Spires of the Jacobikirche and Petrikirche Seen Across the Binnenalster 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Hamburg: The Lombardsbrücke with the Windmill on its Right and the Spires of the Jacobikirche and Petrikirche Seen Across the Binnenalster’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 16 Recto:
Hamburg: The Lombardsbrücke with the Windmill on its Right and the Spires of the Jacobikirche and Petrikirche Seen Across the Binnenalster 1835
D30851
Turner Bequest CCCV 16
Pencil on white laid writing paper, 92 x 155 mm
Partial Watermark: orb ornamented with laurel leaves
Inscribed in red ink by Ruskin ‘16’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCCV–16’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This cursory sketch of Hamburg was taken from a vantage point at the foot of the Lombardsbrücke (Lombard Bridge), which connects the Neustadt with the Altstadt at either side of the Binnealster. A windmill is visible in the middle distance, and beyond are the spires of St James’s and St Peter’s.
For more sketches of Hamburg see Tate D30842–D30860, D30862–D30870, D30872, D30874–D30880, D30882–D30886; Turner Bequest CCCV 11a–20a, 21a–25a, 26a, 27a–30a, 31a–33a.

Alice Rylance-Watson
April 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Hamburg: The Lombardsbrücke with the Windmill on its Right and the Spires of the Jacobikirche and Petrikirche Seen Across the Binnenalster 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-hamburg-the-lombardsbrucke-with-the-windmill-on-its-right-r1187229, accessed 29 April 2025.