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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1830-35 Annual tourist > Southern Germany, Austria and Venice ... > Salzburg and Danube Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Two Soldiers; Boat on the Danube around Krems; Man in a Top Hat 1833

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Two Soldiers; Boat on the Danube around Krems; Man in a Top Hat’ 1833
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 1 Verso:
Two Soldiers; Boat on the Danube around Krems; Man in a Top Hat 1833
D30131
Turner Bequest CCC 1a
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 99 x 159 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Method of loading Wine Casks’ top lef to centre; ‘[...]’ top centre to right; ‘Red Collar | Cuff of the | same [...] | Blue’, ‘Blue’ | ‘Austrians’ centre left
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
These sketches show figures and boats on the Danube around Krems, Austria (see also Tate D41223 and Tate D30130; Turner Bequest CCC 1). Turner depicts riverboats loaded with cargo, two soldiers, a man in a top hat, and the steep banks of a river. Below one of the boats Turner has inscribed ‘Method of loading Wine Casks’ and around the soldiers he has inscribed ‘Red Collar | Cuff of the | same [...] | Blue’, ‘Blue’ | ‘Austrians’. A larger boat is depicted parallel to the gutter of the sketchbook.

Alice Rylance-Watson
August 2017

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Two Soldiers; Boat on the Danube around Krems; Man in a Top Hat 1833 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, August 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-two-soldiers-boat-on-the-danube-around-krems-man-in-a-top-r1203264, accessed 25 December 2024.