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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner View on the Danube with Göttweig Abbey in the Distance and a Boat in the Foreground; Four Sketches of Boats on the Danube 1833

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘View on the Danube with Göttweig Abbey in the Distance and a Boat in the Foreground; Four Sketches of Boats on the Danube’ 1833
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 1 Recto:
View on the Danube with Göttweig Abbey in the Distance and a Boat in the Foreground; Four Sketches of Boats on the Danube 1833
D30130
Turner Bequest CCC 1
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 99 x 159 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Danube’ top centre, ‘Horses’ top right
Remains of inscription in red ink by Ruskin ‘1’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCC–1’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The principal view shows boats on the Danube around Krems, Austria, with Göttweig Abbey in the distance. Above are separate sketches of various rowing boats and riverboats with long oars. The inscriptions ‘Danube’ and ‘Horses’ are associated with sketches on the folio opposite (Tate D41223).
For more views of Krems see Tate D30131, D30192, D30200, D30283–D30285; Turner Bequest CCC 1a, 32, 36, 78a–79a.

Alice Rylance-Watson
August 2017

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘View on the Danube with Göttweig Abbey in the Distance and a Boat in the Foreground; Four Sketches of Boats on the Danube 1833 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, August 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-on-the-danube-with-gottweig-abbey-in-the-distance-and-a-r1203263, accessed 18 July 2024.