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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Salzburg: The Kapuzinerberg from the South; View Looking South to Pass Lueg 1833

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Salzburg: The Kapuzinerberg from the South; View Looking South to Pass Lueg’ 1833
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 11 Recto:
Salzburg: The Kapuzinerberg from the South; View Looking South to Pass Lueg 1833
D30150
Turner Bequest CCC 11
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 99 x 159 mm
Watermark ‘J’
Remains of inscription in red ink by Ruskin ‘11’ bottom right
Inscribed in black ink over Ruskin by CF Bell ‘11’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCC–11’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
In the uppermost view Turner pictures the Kapuzinerberg at Salzburg from a southerly perspective. A bend in the Salzach can be seen at left, with the circuit wall and turrets of the Kapuzinerberg’s old fortifications suggested roughly to the immediate top right of the river.
Below is a view of Salzburg looking south towards Pass Lueg.
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 Kapuzinerberg from the South; View Looking South to Pass Lueg 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-kapuzinerberg-from-the-south-view-looking-south-r1203283, accessed 25 November 2024.