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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Austrian Mountains; Salzburg: View up the Salzach to the Kapuzinerberg and Bridge 1833

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Austrian Mountains; Salzburg: View up the Salzach to the Kapuzinerberg and Bridge’ 1833
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 38 Recto:
Austrian Mountains; Salzburg: View up the Salzach to the Kapuzinerberg and Bridge 1833
D30204
Turner Bequest CCC 38
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 99 x 159 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘going to Lintz’ top centre towards right
Remains of inscription in red ink by Ruskin ‘38’ bottom right
Inscribed in black ink over Ruskin by CF Bell ‘38’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCC–38’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Mountains in Austria inscribed ‘going to Lintz’ are shown in the upper sketch, suggesting that the range depicted was one Turner passed on his way from Salzburg to Linz.

Below this sketch is a viewof Salzburg looking up the Salzach, with the Kapuzinerberg at left and the Staatsbrücke at centre. The old town and Fortress are swiftly marked out at right. 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, ‘Austrian Mountains; Salzburg: View up the Salzach to the Kapuzinerberg and Bridge 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-austrian-mountains-salzburg-view-up-the-salzach-to-the-r1203337, accessed 24 November 2024.