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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Views on the Danube: Göttweig Abbey and Mautern from Stein; Mautern and Stein; Stein 1833

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Views on the Danube: Göttweig Abbey and Mautern from Stein; Mautern and Stein; Stein’ 1833
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 6 Recto:
Views on the Danube: Göttweig Abbey and Mautern from Stein; Mautern and Stein; Stein 1833
D30140
Turner Bequest CCC 6
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 99 x 159 mm
Partial watermark ‘C’
Remains of inscription in red ink by Ruskin ‘6’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCC–6’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This series of sketches shows views on the Danube, with Stein an der Donau and the distant Göttweig Abbeydepicted in the upper view. The central view shows the Danube with Mautern at left and Stein on the opposite bank at right, while the lower shows Stein (now incorporated into Krems). The Frauenbergkirche and Church of St Nicholas can be seen at right.

Alice Rylance-Watson
July 2017

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Views on the Danube: Göttweig Abbey and Mautern from Stein; Mautern and Stein; Stein 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-views-on-the-danube-gottweig-abbey-and-mautern-from-stein-r1203273, accessed 30 June 2024.