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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Vienna: View from a Window in the Upper Belvedere 1833

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Vienna: View from a Window in the Upper Belvedere’ 1833
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
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Vienna: View from a Window in the Upper Belvedere 1833
D31417
Turner Bequest CCCXI 1a
Pencil on off-white lined paper, 113 x 184 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This view of Vienna was taken from a window in the Upper Belvedere, formerly a Habsburg palace which then housed the imperial art collection (see Tate D41262, D31416; Turner Bequest CCCXI 1). A parterre is roughly sketched out in the foreground, leading down to the Lower Belvedere at centre. The spire of St Stephan’s Cathedral can be seen at left, with the domed Salesianerinnenkirche at right.
For more views of Vienna in this sketchbook, see Tate D31421–D31423, D31425–D31440, D31442–D31442, D31446–D31452, D31454–D31458, D31470–D31471, D31542, D31592, D31596; Turner Bequest CCCXI 1, 3a–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, ‘Vienna: View from a Window in the Upper Belvedere 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-view-from-a-window-in-the-upper-belvedere-r1203432, accessed 25 November 2024.