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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Salzburg: View down the Salzach to the Kapuzinerberg 1833

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Salzburg: View down the Salzach to the Kapuzinerberg’ 1833
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 9 Recto:
Salzburg: View down the Salzach to the Kapuzinerberg 1833
D30146
Turner Bequest CCC 9
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 99 x 159 mm
Watermark ‘C’ and partial ‘J’
Remains of inscription in red ink by Ruskin ‘9’ bottom right
Inscribed in black ink over Ruskin by CF Bell ‘9’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCC–9’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
In this view of Salzburg the Kapuzinerberg is shown at centre, with the Kapuzinerkloster and fortifications atop it. The dome of the Dreifaltigkeitskirche can be seen at left.
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: View down the Salzach to the Kapuzinerberg 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-down-the-salzach-to-the-kapuzinerberg-r1203279, accessed 18 July 2024.