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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Salzburg: View of the Mönchsberg and Part of the City from the Kapuzinerberg 1833

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Salzburg: View of the Mönchsberg and Part of the City from the Kapuzinerberg’ 1833
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 3 Recto:
Salzburg: View of the Mönchsberg and Part of the City from the Kapuzinerberg 1833
D30134
Turner Bequest CCC 3
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 99 x 159 mm
Remains of inscription in red ink by Ruskin ‘3’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCC–3’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
From a vantage point on the Kapuzinerberg in Salzburg, Turner depicts the view looking across the Salzach towards the fortified Mönchsberg. The tower of St Johannes am Imberg is possibly shown in the foreground at right, and the domed building in the distance at centre may be the Cathedral.
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: View of the Mönchsberg and Part of the City 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-view-of-the-monchsberg-and-part-of-the-city-from-r1203267, accessed 30 June 2024.