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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Salzburg: The Mönchsberg and Müllnerkirche from the Kapuzinerberg, with the Dreifaltigkeitskirche in the Foreground 1833

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Salzburg: The Mönchsberg and Müllnerkirche from the Kapuzinerberg, with the Dreifaltigkeitskirche in the Foreground’ 1833
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 3 Verso:
Salzburg: The Mönchsberg and Müllnerkirche from the Kapuzinerberg, with the Dreifaltigkeitskirche in the Foreground 1833
D30135
Turner Bequest CCC 3a
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 99 x 159 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This view of Salzburg taken from the Kapuzinerberg looks across the Salzach towards Mönchsberg hill, with the Müllnerkirche at centre. The dome and tower of the Dreifaltigkeitskirche appears in the foreground.1
For more views of Salzburg in this sketchbook see Tate D30133–D30139; D30143–D30222; D30294–D30295; Turner Bequest CCC 2a–5a, 7a–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

1
Cecilia Powell catalogues this church as the Johanniskirche; see Powell 1995, p.226.

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Salzburg: The Mönchsberg and Müllnerkirche from the Kapuzinerberg, with the Dreifaltigkeitskirche in the Foreground 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-salzburg-the-monchsberg-and-mullnerkirche-from-the-r1203268, accessed 25 November 2024.