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 4 Recto:
Two Views near Vienna; Sketches of Mountain Scenery 1833
D31422
Turner Bequest CCCXI 4
Pencil on off-white lined paper, 184 x 113 mm
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘4’ top right and ‘246’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCCXI – 4’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The upper views of Vienna are continued from the folio opposite (Tate D31421; Turner Bequest CCCXI 3a). St Stephen’s Cathedral appears in the upper view, while the view below may have been taken from the Danube.
The remaining sketches show mountain scenery.

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-r1203437, accessed 22 July 2024.