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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Salzburg: View down the Salzach to the City; Salzburg: Closer Detail Showing the Kapuzinerkloster 1833

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Salzburg: View down the Salzach to the City; Salzburg: Closer Detail Showing the Kapuzinerkloster’ 1833
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 13 Verso:
Salzburg: View down the Salzach to the City; Salzburg: Closer Detail Showing the Kapuzinerkloster 1833
D30155
Turner Bequest CCC 13a
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 99 x 159 mm
Partial watermark ‘J’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The principal view shows Hohensalzburg Fortress atop the Festungsberg at left, with Nonnberg Abbey at the bottom right of the hill. The Kapuzinerberg, fortified with a circuit wall, can be seen at right. Below is a detail of the Kapuzinerkloster, the Capuchin monastery on the Kapuzinerberg. Cloud formations are marked out in summary line.
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 City; Salzburg: Closer Detail Showing the Kapuzinerkloster 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-city-salzburg-closer-r1203288, accessed 25 November 2024.