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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Dürnstein, Looking Upstream; Stormy Sky; Stein, Looking Downstream; Göttweig Abbey, as Seen from the Danube; View down the Danube to Stein and Mautern; View Upstream to Dürnstein 1833

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Dürnstein, Looking Upstream; Stormy Sky; Stein, Looking Downstream; Göttweig Abbey, as Seen from the Danube; View down the Danube to Stein and Mautern; View Upstream to Dürnstein’ 1833
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 79 Recto:
Dürnstein, Looking Upstream; Stormy Sky; Stein, Looking Downstream; Göttweig Abbey, as Seen from the Danube; View down the Danube to Stein and Mautern; View Upstream to Dürnstein 1833
D30284
Turner Bequest CCC 79
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 159 x 99 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Stein’ | ‘Bridge 21’ centre right, ‘Yel’, ‘Or and Red’, ‘B’, ‘Purple Or’ top right
Remains of inscription in red ink by Ruskin ‘79’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCC–79’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
These six sketches showing the Danube at Dürnstein, Stein and Göttweig Abbey are all continued from the folio opposite (Tate D30283; Turner Bequest CCC 78a).
At top left is the continuation of a view of Dürnstein, with a squared-off sketch of a stormy sky to its right. Turner has jotted down a series of notes in the sky to describe colours: ‘Yel[low]’, ‘Or[ange] and Red’, ‘B’, ‘Purple Or’.
The view at centre shows ‘Stein’ (inscribed), with the Parish Church of St Nikolaus, the Frauenbergkirche, Minoritenkirche, the Piarist Church and Parish Church of St Vitus rendered from left to right (see Tate D30259, D30261; Turner Bequest CCC 65a, 66a). Göttweig Abbey is pictured to the top right of the view of Stein.
Below is a view of the Danube with Stein on the bank at left, the bridge at centre and Mautern on the opposite bank at right.‘Bridge 21’ is inscribed. The view at rear, rendered inversely relative to the sketches above it, shows the Danube with Dürnstein and its Abbey Church.

Alice Rylance-Watson
July 2017

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Dürnstein, Looking Upstream; Stormy Sky; Stein, Looking Downstream; Göttweig Abbey, as Seen from the Danube; View down the Danube to Stein and Mautern; View Upstream to Dürnstein 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-durnstein-looking-upstream-stormy-sky-stein-looking-r1203416, accessed 30 June 2024.