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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1830-35 Annual tourist > Southern Germany, Austria and Venice ... > Salzburg and Danube Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Hollenburg; View Looking Upstream to Hollenburg; Distant View of Göttweig Abbey, as Seen from the Danube; The Leopoldsberg near Vienna, with Klosterneuburg in the Distance; Detail of Leopoldsberg Church 1833

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Hollenburg; View Looking Upstream to Hollenburg; Distant View of Göttweig Abbey, as Seen from the Danube; The Leopoldsberg near Vienna, with Klosterneuburg in the Distance; Detail of Leopoldsberg Church’ 1833
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 80 Recto:
Hollenburg; View Looking Upstream to Hollenburg; Distant View of Göttweig Abbey, as Seen from the Danube; The Leopoldsberg near Vienna, with Klosterneuburg in the Distance; Detail of Leopoldsberg Church 1833
D30286
Turner Bequest CCC 80
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 159 x 99 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘[?Kalen] K[...]’ top right, ‘[...]’ top right towards centre
Remains of inscription in red ink by Ruskin ‘80’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCC–80’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Hollenburg Castle (Ruine Bertholdstein in German) is depicted at left in the uppermost view, overlooking the Danube from a cliff. A boat navigates the river in the foreground. What appears to be a separate sketch of a church atop a hill is rendered at top right.
Below the sketch of Hollenburg Castle is a view looking up the Danube back towards Hollenburg. The sketch at centre is part of a view of Göttweig Abbey, which is continued from the folio opposite (Tate D30285; Turner Bequest CCC 79a).
The sketch at rear, rendered inversely relative to those above it, shows the Leopoldsberg, a hill outside of Vienna. The building atop it is the Leopoldskirche, built in the late seventeenth to early eighteenth centuries. Turner has drawn a detail of the church on the hill.
The inscription at top right ‘[?Kalen] K[...]’ may refer to the Kahlenberg, a hill neighbouring the Leopoldsburg to the east.

Alice Rylance-Watson
July 2017

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Hollenburg; View Looking Upstream to Hollenburg; Distant View of Göttweig Abbey, as Seen from the Danube; The Leopoldsberg near Vienna, with Klosterneuburg in the Distance; Detail of Leopoldsberg 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-hollenburg-view-looking-upstream-to-hollenburg-distant-view-r1203418, accessed 30 June 2024.