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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1830-35 Annual tourist > Southern Germany, Austria and Venice ... > Salzburg and Danube Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner View Looking West to Salzburg Fortress from the Salzach, with a Water Mill in Foreground; View Looking up the Salzach to Salzburg Fortress and Stift Nonnberg 1833

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘View Looking West to Salzburg Fortress from the Salzach, with a Water Mill in Foreground; View Looking up the Salzach to Salzburg Fortress and Stift Nonnberg’ 1833
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 9 Verso:
View Looking West to Salzburg Fortress from the Salzach, with a Water Mill in Foreground; View Looking up the Salzach to Salzburg Fortress and Stift Nonnberg 1833
D30147
Turner Bequest CCC 9a
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 99 x 159 mm
Watermark ‘C’ and partial ‘J’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
From a vantage point on the Salzach near a watermill depicted in the foreground at bottom left, Turner depicts Hohensalzburg Fortress in Salzburg. The Fortress is shown again in a small sketch at bottom right, with the tower of the Stift Nonnberg, an abbey, to its right.
For more views of Salzburg in this sketchbook see Tate D30133–D30139; D30144–D30222; D30294–D30295; Turner Bequest CCC 2a–5a, 8–47, 84–84a. See also the Heidelberg up to Salzburg sketchbook (Tate D29965, D29969–D29970, D29972, D29977, D29986; Turner Bequest CCXCVIII 76a, 78a–79, 80, 83, 88) and the Vienna up to Venice (Tate D31483–D31486, D31495; Turner Bequest 34a–40a).

Alice Rylance-Watson
July 2017

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘View Looking West to Salzburg Fortress from the Salzach, with a Water Mill in Foreground; View Looking up the Salzach to Salzburg Fortress and Stift Nonnberg 1833 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, July 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-view-looking-west-to-salzburg-fortress-from-the-salzach-with-r1203280, accessed 30 June 2024.