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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Salzburg: View from across the Salzach (Continued in the Sky) 1833

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Salzburg: View from across the Salzach (Continued in the Sky)’ 1833
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 5 Verso:
Salzburg: View from across the Salzach (Continued in the Sky) 1833
D30139
Turner Bequest CCC 5a
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 99 x 159 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Salzburg’ centre towards rear; ‘Bells’ top centre towards right; ‘Red’ centre towards top right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
From the opposite bank of the Salzach, Turner depicts the many churches and buildings of Salzburg’s old town. The Cathedral is visible at centre, with the towers of the old Rathaus and St Michael’s Church towards the foreground at centre-right. What appears to be the dome of the Collegiate Church can be seen at right, with Mönchsberg hill continued in the sky above. ‘Salzburg’ is inscribed at centre below the Cathedral, while ‘Bells’ and a diagonal line directed to one of the Cathedral’s towers is inscribed at top centre towards right. ‘Red’ is inscribed directly beneath it.
For more views of Salzburg in this sketchbook see Tate D30133–D30138; D30143–D30222; D30294–D30295; Turner Bequest CCC 2a–5, 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 from across the Salzach (Continued in the Sky) 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-from-across-the-salzach-continued-in-the-sky-r1203272, accessed 30 June 2024.