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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1830-35 Annual tourist > Southern Germany, Austria and Venice ... > Salzburg and Danube Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner View up the Salzach in Two Instalments: Looking South to Pass Lueg; Looking West to Salzburg Fortress, with the Staufen beyond 1833

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘View up the Salzach in Two Instalments: Looking South to Pass Lueg; Looking West to Salzburg Fortress, with the Staufen beyond’ 1833
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 8 Verso:
View up the Salzach in Two Instalments: Looking South to Pass Lueg; Looking West to Salzburg Fortress, with the Staufen beyond 1833
D30145
Turner Bequest CCC 8a
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 99 x 159 mm
Partial watermark ‘J’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
These sketches show the Salzach in two instalments, from the south and west. The upper view depicts the river looking south towards Pass Lueg. The view below depicts the river looking west towards Hohensalzburg Fortress, the Cathedral and Hochstaufen Mountain in the distance at right.

Alice Rylance-Watson
July 2017

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘View up the Salzach in Two Instalments: Looking South to Pass Lueg; Looking West to Salzburg Fortress, with the Staufen beyond 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-up-the-salzach-in-two-instalments-looking-south-to-pass-r1203278, accessed 25 November 2024.