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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Houses in Vienna, with St Stephen's Cathedral in the Distance 1840

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Houses in Vienna, with St Stephen's Cathedral in the Distance’ 1840
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 4 Recto:
Houses in Vienna, with St Stephen’s Cathedral in the Distance 1840
D30008
Turner Bequest CCXCIX 4
Pencil on cream wove paper, 127 x 198 mm
Partial watermark ‘atman’
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘4’ top right, ascending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCXCIX – 4’ top right, ascending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The drawing was made with the page turned horizontally. As Cecilia Powell recognised,1 the view is west from the direction of Schulerstrasse, now largely lined with later buildings, towards Vienna’s St Stephen’s Cathedral, with its spire and domed tower marking the transepts south and north of the nave respectively. For other views of the building and the city, see under folio 40 recto (D30008).2
1
See Powell 1995, p.242.
2
See also Powell 1995, p.81 note 24.
Technical notes:
There is staining towards the top left and right from the leather pencil loops secured under the front paste-down (D41222).

Matthew Imms
September 2018

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Houses in Vienna, with St Stephen’s Cathedral in the Distance 1840 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 2018, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2019, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-houses-in-vienna-with-st-stephens-cathedral-in-the-distance-r1196858, accessed 17 July 2024.