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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Berlin: The Lustgarten from Foot of Steps up to the Museum: Marienkirche, Domkirche, North Façade of the Schloss and Granite Basin in front of the Museum; Inscription in Front of the Museum; Three Bays of the North Façade of the Schloss 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Berlin: The Lustgarten from Foot of Steps up to the Museum: Marienkirche, Domkirche, North Façade of the Schloss and Granite Basin in front of the Museum; Inscription in Front of the Museum; Three Bays of the North Façade of the Schloss’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
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Berlin: The Lustgarten from Foot of Steps up to the Museum: Marienkirche, Domkirche, North Façade of the Schloss and Granite Basin in front of the Museum; Inscription in Front of the Museum; Three Bays of the North Façade of the Schloss 1835
D31045
Turner Bequest CCCVII 13 a
Pencil on cream laid paper, 89 x 162 mm
Watermark ‘cfw & s’
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Fridericus Guilelmus III Studio Antiquitatis Omnigenae et artium Liberalium | Museum Constituit mdcccxxxiii’ left to right rear; ‘4’ top left, ‘6’ top centre, ‘7’ top centre towards right; ‘[...]’ | ‘[...]’ far right centre
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is a sketch of Berlin’s Lustgarten, with the Marienkirche, Cathedral and the northern façade of the Stadtschloss at left, Cantian’s granite basin in the foreground, and the Altes Museum at right. Turner has inscribed the dedication on the entrance of the museum across the page. The complete dedication reads: ‘Fridericus Guilelmus III Studio Antiquitatis Omnigenae et artium Liberalium Museum Constituit mdcccxxviii’ (incorrectly transcribed by Turner as ‘mdcccxxxiii’). This translates as: ‘Friedrich Wilhelm III dedicated this museum to the study of all antiquity and liberal arts in 1828’. At bottom right is a separate jotting of part of the Stadtschloss.
For other sketches of Berlin see Tate D21046–D31082; Turner Bequest CCCVII 14–32.

Alice Rylance-Watson
May 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Berlin: The Lustgarten from Foot of Steps up to the Museum: Marienkirche, Domkirche, North Façade of the Schloss and Granite Basin in front of the Museum; Inscription in Front of the Museum; Three Bays of the North Façade of the Schloss 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-berlin-the-lustgarten-from-foot-of-steps-up-to-the-museum-r1186918, accessed 21 November 2024.