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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Two Views near Vienna; Sketches of Mountain Scenery 1833

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Two Views near Vienna; Sketches of Mountain Scenery’ 1833
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 3 Verso:
Two Views near Vienna; Sketches of Mountain Scenery 1833
D31421
Turner Bequest CCCXI 3a
Pencil on off-white lined paper, 184 x 113 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘[?Danube]’ right centre towards top right, ‘[...]’ bottom centre, ‘[...] Dell[...]’ bottom left (inverted)
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner has rendered two rough views of Vienna, both of which continue onto the folio opposite (Tate D31422; Turner Bequest CCCXI 4). A palace appears to be at left in the upper view, with trees in the middle and a tower at right. The view below may have been taken from the Danube.
The remaining sketches were produced with the sketchbook turned horizontally and show mountain scenery and a church tower, with illegible inscriptions.
For more views of Vienna in this sketchbook, see Tate D31417, D31423, D31425–D31440, D31442–D31442, D31446–D31452, D31454–D31458, D31470–D31471, D31542, D31592, D31596; Turner Bequest CCCXI 1a, 4a, 5v–13, 14–15, 16–19, 20–22, 28–28a, 64a, 92, 94. For views in the 1840 Trieste, Graz and Danube sketchbook see Tate D30008, D30011, D30013, D30019, D30076–D30077; Turner Bequest CCXCIX 4, 5a, 6a, 9a, 40–40a.

Alice Rylance-Watson
September 2017

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Two Views near Vienna; Sketches of Mountain Scenery 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-two-views-near-vienna-sketches-of-mountain-scenery-r1203436, accessed 22 July 2024.