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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Salzburg: The Sebastianskirche and View down the Salzach from the Flagellation Station of the Cross on the Kapuzinerberg; Maria Plain in the Distance 1833

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Salzburg: The Sebastianskirche and View down the Salzach from the Flagellation Station of the Cross on the Kapuzinerberg; Maria Plain in the Distance’ 1833
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 4 Recto:
Salzburg: The Sebastianskirche and View down the Salzach from the Flagellation Station of the Cross on the Kapuzinerberg; Maria Plain in the Distance 1833
D30136
Turner Bequest CCC 4
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 99 x 159 mm
Watermark partial floral motif
Remains of inscription in red ink by Ruskin ‘4’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCC–4’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
In this view of Salzburg Turner depicts the tower of the Sebastianskirche, with the Salzach and Maria Plain beyond. His vantage point is the Kapuzinerberg, specifically the Flagellation Station of the Cross, one of six Stations situated on the ascent to the Capuchin monastery.
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 Sebastianskirche and View down the Salzach from the Flagellation Station of the Cross on the Kapuzinerberg; Maria Plain in the Distance 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-sebastianskirche-and-view-down-the-salzach-from-r1203269, accessed 30 June 2024.