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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Salzburg: The Fortress from the East, with the Untersberg 1833

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Salzburg: The Fortress from the East, with the Untersberg’ 1833
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 7 Verso:
Salzburg: The Fortress from the East, with the Untersberg 1833
D30143
Turner Bequest CCC 7a
Pencil on off-white lined paper, 99 x 159 mm
Watermark partial floral motif
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
In this view of Salzburg shown from the east Hohensalzburg Fortress is visible at right, overlooking the Salzach. The peaks of the Untersberg can also be seen.
For more views of Salzburg in this sketchbook see Tate D30133–D30139; D30144–D30222; D30294–D30295; Turner Bequest CCC 2a–5a, 8–47, 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: The Fortress from the East, with the Untersberg 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-fortress-from-the-east-with-the-untersberg-r1203276, accessed 30 June 2024.