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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Hamburg: View on the Binnenhafen, with the Katharinenkirche 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Hamburg: View on the Binnenhafen, with the Katharinenkirche’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 14 Recto:
Hamburg: View on the Binnenhafen, with the Katharinenkirche 1835
D30847
Turner Bequest CCCV 14
Pencil on white laid writing paper, 92 x 155 mm
Partial Watermark: orb ornamented with laurel leaves
Inscribed in red ink by Ruskin ‘14’ bottom right (very faded)
Stamped in black ‘CCCV–14’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is a sketch of the Binnenhafen, the oldest part of Hamburg port. Boats are docked at the quayside and a wooden bridge can be seen at centre. The baroque spire of St Catherine’s Church (the Katharinenkirche) is rendered in the distance.
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: View on the Binnenhafen, with the Katharinenkirche 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-view-on-the-binnenhafen-with-the-katharinenkirche-r1187225, accessed 24 November 2024.