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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The Danube from the Vienna Woods 1833

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Danube from the Vienna Woods’ 1833
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 10 Verso:
The Danube from the Vienna Woods 1833
D31435
Turner Bequest CCCXI 10a
Pencil on off-white lined paper, 113 x 184 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘C[...] [...]’ left centre, ‘D’ left centre, ‘D’ centre
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This view shows the Danube (inscribed twice ‘D’), from a vantage point in the Wienerwald or Vienna Woods north of Grinzing. A church tower can be seen at left, below the inscription ‘C[...] [...]’.

Alice Rylance-Watson
September 2017

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘The Danube from the Vienna Woods 1833 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 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-the-danube-from-the-vienna-woods-r1203449, accessed 03 July 2024.