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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Vienna: View from the Leopoldsberg; The Kahlenberg and the Leopoldsberg 1833

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Vienna: View from the Leopoldsberg; The Kahlenberg and the Leopoldsberg’ 1833
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 12 Recto:
Vienna: View from the Leopoldsberg; The Kahlenberg and the Leopoldsberg 1833
D31438
Turner Bequest CCCXI 12
Pencil on off-white lined paper, 113 x 184 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Dark but the Danube in Light’ top centre, ‘[...]’ top right, ‘Dab’ top centre to left, ‘Closter’ left, ‘V’ left
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘12’ top right and ‘246’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCCXI – 12’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The upper view shows Vienna and the Danube valley from the Leopoldsberg. The river is marked at centre left ‘Dab’ and a vine-covered hill at left is marked ‘V’. Turner has inscribed ‘Dark but the Danube in Light’ above the view.
Below the Kahlenberg is shown at left, with St Josef’s monastery, and the Leopoldsberg and Leopoldskirche at right. ‘Closter’ is inscribed above St Josef’s.
For more views of Vienna in this sketchbook, see Tate D31417, D31421–D31423, D31425–D31440, D31442–D31442, D31446–D31452, D31454–D31458, D31470–D31471, D31542, D31592, D31596; Turner Bequest CCCXI 1a, 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.
For other views of Leopoldsberg see Tate D30286, D31430, D31432, D31436, D31439– D31440, D31442–D31443, D31446–D31447, D31449; Turner Bequest CCC 80, CCCXI 8, 9, 11, 12a–13, 16–16a, 17a.

Alice Rylance-Watson
September 2017

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Vienna: View from the Leopoldsberg; The Kahlenberg and the Leopoldsberg 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-the-leopoldsberg-the-kahlenberg-and-the-r1203452, accessed 22 July 2024.