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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Salzburg: View up the Salzach towards Stift Nonnberg and the Kajetanerkirche; Pass Lueg in the Distance 1833

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Salzburg: View up the Salzach towards Stift Nonnberg and the Kajetanerkirche; Pass Lueg in the Distance’ 1833
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 4 Verso:
Salzburg: View up the Salzach towards Stift Nonnberg and the Kajetanerkirche; Pass Lueg in the Distance 1833
D30137
Turner Bequest CCC 4a
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 99 x 159 mm
Watermark partial floral motif
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This view of Salzburg, which continues onto the folio opposite (Tate D30138; Turner Bequest CCC 5), shows Nonnberg Abbey atop the heights at centre with the domed Kajetanerkirche in the foreground. Pass Lueg is depicted in the distance.
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

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Salzburg: View up the Salzach towards Stift Nonnberg and the Kajetanerkirche; Pass Lueg in the Distance 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-view-up-the-salzach-towards-stift-nonnberg-and-the-r1203270, accessed 25 November 2024.