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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The Leopoldsberg, Looking towards Korneuburg; The Danube Valley 1833

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Leopoldsberg, Looking towards Korneuburg; The Danube Valley’ 1833
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 13 Recto:
The Leopoldsberg, Looking towards Korneuburg; The Danube Valley 1833
D31440
Turner Bequest CCCXI 13
Pencil on off-white lined paper, 113 x 184 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Corn[...]’ top centre, ‘Vil’ top centre towards right, ‘v’, ‘v’ top right, ‘2’ bottom centre
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘13’ top right and ‘246’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCCXI – 13’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The Leopoldsberg and its church are depicted at left, with the Danube valley beyond. Korneuburg (inscribed ‘Corn[...]’) and surrounding villages (inscribed ‘Vil’, ‘v’, ‘v’) are marked.
A view of the Danube valley is depicted parallel to the gutter of the sketchbook, orientated inversely relative to the sketch of the Leopoldsberg.

Alice Rylance-Watson
September 2017

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘The Leopoldsberg, Looking towards Korneuburg; The Danube Valley 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-leopoldsberg-looking-towards-korneuburg-the-danube-r1203454, accessed 03 July 2024.