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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Hamburg: View across the Aussenalster from the Alsterglacis to the Georgkirche, Windmill and Lombardsbrücke; ?Copenhagen: The Apse of the Church of Our Lady 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Hamburg: View across the Aussenalster from the Alsterglacis to the Georgkirche, Windmill and Lombardsbrücke; ?Copenhagen: The Apse of the Church of Our Lady’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 19 Recto:
Hamburg: View across the Aussenalster from the Alsterglacis to the Georgkirche, Windmill and Lombardsbrücke; ?Copenhagen: The Apse of the Church of Our Lady 1835
D30857
Turner Bequest CCCV 19
Pencil on white laid writing paper, 92 x 155 mm
Partial Watermark: orb ornamented with laurel leaves
Inscribed in red ink by Ruskin ‘19’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCCV–19’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This rough sketch is a view of Aussenalster Lake at Hamburg, taken from the Alsterglacis. Visible is the Church of St George, a windmill and the Lombardsbrücke (Lombard Bridge). The early morning sun is reflected in the waters of the Aussenalster at right. 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.
The sketch at top right may be the apse of the Church of Our Lady in Copenhagen (see Tate D30859, D30883; Turner Bequest CCCV 20, 32).

Alice Rylance-Watson
April 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Hamburg: View across the Aussenalster from the Alsterglacis to the Georgkirche, Windmill and Lombardsbrücke; ?Copenhagen: The Apse of the Church of Our Lady 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-across-the-aussenalster-from-the-alsterglacis-r1187235, accessed 30 June 2024.