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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The Leopoldsburg and View up the Danube (plus More Detailed Sketch of the Church and Bastions); Buildings 1833

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Leopoldsburg and View up the Danube (plus More Detailed Sketch of the Church and Bastions); Buildings’ 1833
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 15 Recto:
The Leopoldsburg and View up the Danube (plus More Detailed Sketch of the Church and Bastions); Buildings 1833
D31444
Turner Bequest CCCXI 15
Pencil on off-white lined paper, 113 x 184 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Leopoldsbg’ bottom left
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘15’ top right and ‘246’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCCXI – 15’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner depicts a view up the Danube from the Leopoldsburg, Vienna, with the Leopoldskirche and bastions at left. A more detailed sketch of the church is at bottom left, inscribed ‘Leopoldsbg’. A sketch of a town and church is rendered at right.

Alice Rylance-Watson
September 2017

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘The Leopoldsburg and View up the Danube (plus More Detailed Sketch of the Church and Bastions); Buildings 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-leopoldsburg-and-view-up-the-danube-plus-more-detailed-r1203458, accessed 22 July 2024.