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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Salzburg: The Fortress from the Kapuzinerberg 1833

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Salzburg: The Fortress from the Kapuzinerberg’ 1833
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 5 Recto:
Salzburg: The Fortress from the Kapuzinerberg 1833
D30138
Turner Bequest CCC 5
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 99 x 159 mm
Remains of inscription in red ink by Ruskin ‘5’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCC–5’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This view of Salzburg, continued from the folio opposite (Tate D30137; Turner Bequest CC 4a), shows Hohensalzburg Fortress from a vantage point on the Kapuzinerberg.
For more views of Salzburg in this sketchbook see Tate D30133–D30139; D30143–D30222; D30294–D30295; Turner Bequest CCC 2a–5a, 7a–47, 84–84a. See also the Heidelberg up to Salzburg sketchbook (Tate D29965, D29969–D29970, D29972, D29977, D29986; Turner Bequest CCXCVIII 76a, 78a–79, 80, 83, 88) and the Vienna up to Venice (Tate D31483–D31486, D31495; Turner Bequest 34a–40a).

Alice Rylance-Watson
July 2017

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Salzburg: The Fortress from the Kapuzinerberg 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-salzburg-the-fortress-from-the-kapuzinerberg-r1203271, accessed 25 November 2024.