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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Sketches of the Fortress Island of Trekroner 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Sketches of the Fortress Island of Trekroner’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 54 Verso
Sketches of the Fortress Island of Trekroner 1835
D31127
Turner Bequest CCCVII 54 a
Pencil on cream laid paper, 89 x 162 mm
Watermark double ‘X’ mark
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
These slight sketches show Trekroner, a sea fort at the entrance of Copenhagen Harbour.
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, ‘Sketches of the Fortress Island of Trekroner 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-sketches-of-the-fortress-island-of-trekroner-r1187002, accessed 22 November 2024.