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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Vienna: The Upper Belvedere and its Gardens from the Corner of the Gardens by the East Pavilion, with Sphinxes in the Foreground; Tower 1833

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Vienna: The Upper Belvedere and its Gardens from the Corner of the Gardens by the East Pavilion, with Sphinxes in the Foreground; Tower’ 1833
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 6 Verso:
Vienna: The Upper Belvedere and its Gardens from the Corner of the Gardens by the East Pavilion, with Sphinxes in the Foreground; Tower 1833
D31426
Turner Bequest CCCXI 6
Pencil on off-white lined paper, 113 x 184 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘En[...]’ top centre, descending
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This view was taken from the east pavilion of Vienna’s Upper Belvedere, looking across the gardens in the direction of the Karlskirche at right. Spinxes can be seen in the foreground.
A baroque church tower inscribed ‘En[...]’ is depicted with the sketchbook turned in accordance with the foliation.
For more views of Vienna in this sketchbook, see Tate D31417, D31421–D31423, D31426–D31440, D31442–D31442, D31446–D31452, D31454–D31458, D31470–D31471, D31542, D31592, D31596; Turner Bequest CCCXI 1a, 3a–4a, 6–13, 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.
Recto:
Blank; inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘6’ top right and ‘246’ bottom right, stamped in black ‘CCCXI – 6’ bottom right.

Alice Rylance-Watson
September 2017

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Vienna: The Upper Belvedere and its Gardens from the Corner of the Gardens by the East Pavilion, with Sphinxes in the Foreground; Tower 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-vienna-the-upper-belvedere-and-its-gardens-from-the-corner-r1203441, accessed 22 July 2024.