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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Distant View of Grein, Looking Upstream; The Danube near Grein; Grein Castle and Church 1833

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Distant View of Grein, Looking Upstream; The Danube near Grein; Grein Castle and Church’ 1833
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 61 Recto:
Distant View of Grein, Looking Upstream; The Danube near Grein; Grein Castle and Church 1833
D30250
Turner Bequest CCC 61
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 159 x 99 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Grein’ top left
Remains of inscription in red ink by Ruskin ‘61’ bottom right
Inscribed in black ink over Ruskin by CF Bell ‘61’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCC–61’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The uppermost sketch shows a distant view of ‘Grein’ (inscribed) on the Danube, looking upstream. The Danube around Grein and a view of Greinberg Castle and Grein parish church are depicted in the remaining views, all orientated inversely relative to the foliation. See also Tate D30247–D30249; Turner Bequest CCC 59a–60a.

Alice Rylance-Watson
July 2017

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Distant View of Grein, Looking Upstream; The Danube near Grein; Grein Castle and Church 1833 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, July 2017, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, March 2023, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-distant-view-of-grein-looking-upstream-the-danube-near-grein-r1203383, accessed 30 June 2024.