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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Vienna: View from the Leopoldsberg; View from the Vienna Woods 1833

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Vienna: View from the Leopoldsberg; View from the Vienna Woods’ 1833
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 14 Recto:
Vienna: View from the Leopoldsberg; View from the Vienna Woods 1833
D31442
Turner Bequest CCCXI 14
Pencil on off-white lined paper, 113 x 184 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Grinzing [...]’
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘14’ top right and ‘246’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCCXI – 14’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The principal view, taken from the Leopoldsberg, shows the Danube valley and Vienna in the distance at right. A second view taken from the Vienna Woods near Grinzing is depicted parallel to the gutter of the sketchbook, orientated inversely to the view taken from the Leopoldsberg. Turner has inscribed ‘Grinzing [...]’ below it.
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.

Alice Rylance-Watson
September 2017

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Vienna: View from the Leopoldsberg; View from the Vienna Woods 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-view-from-the-vienna-woods-r1203456, accessed 22 July 2024.