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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Distant View of Kreuzenstein Castle from the Danube near Klosterneuburg; Klosterneuburg; Village on the Danube; The Leopoldsburg, Looking Downstream 1833

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Distant View of Kreuzenstein Castle from the Danube near Klosterneuburg; Klosterneuburg; Village on the Danube; The Leopoldsburg, Looking Downstream’ 1833
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 81 Verso:
Distant View of Kreuzenstein Castle from the Danube near Klosterneuburg; Klosterneuburg; Village on the Danube; The Leopoldsburg, Looking Downstream 1833
D30289
Turner Bequest CCC 81a
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 99 x 159 mm
Watermark ‘C’
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Mill’ top right, ‘4 miles’ bottom centre
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Kreuzenstein Castle is shown from a distance in the uppermost sketch, taken as Turner travelled down the Danube towards Vienna. ‘Mill’ is inscribed at right. The Stift Klosterneuberg, a twelfth-century Augustinian monastery, is depicted at left in the sketch below, with Klosterneuberg town and the Martinskirche at right. Orientated inversely, the sketch below that of Klosterneuberg shows a village on the Danube with a church at right. The sketch at rear shows the Leopoldsberg hill with the Church of St Leopold atop it. The Leopoldsberg is located on the outskirts of Vienna, approximately ‘4 miles’, as Turner inscribes, from the city centre.

Alice Rylance-Watson
July 2017

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Distant View of Kreuzenstein Castle from the Danube near Klosterneuburg; Klosterneuburg; Village on the Danube; The Leopoldsburg, Looking Downstream 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-kreuzenstein-castle-from-the-danube-near-r1203421, accessed 30 June 2024.