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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Kiel: The Schloss and Nikolaikirche 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Kiel: The Schloss and Nikolaikirche’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 11 Recto:
Kiel: The Schloss and Nikolaikirche 1835
D30841
Turner Bequest CCCV 11
Pencil on white laid writing paper, 92 x 155 mm
Partial Watermark: orb ornamented with laurel leaves
Inscribed in red ink by Ruskin ‘11’ bottom right (very faded)
Stamped in black ‘CCCV–11’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is a sketch of Kiel, a port city on the Baltic Sea in northern Germany. Turner depicts the castle (schloss), dating to 1230, and St Nicholas’ Church (Nikolaikirche).1 The artist was in Kiel before travelling to Copenhagen on 6 September 1835.2 See also Tate D30839–D30840; Turner Bequest CCCV 10–10a.

Alice Rylance-Watson
April 2015

1
‘Historie’, Kieler Schloss, accessed 27 April 2015, http://www.kielerschloss.de/cms/index.php
2
Powell 1995m p.49.

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Kiel: The Schloss and Nikolaikirche 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-kiel-the-schloss-and-nikolaikirche-r1187219, accessed 21 November 2024.