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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Distant View of Salzburg Looking North, with Carts; The Hoher Göll 1833

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Distant View of Salzburg Looking North, with Carts; The Hoher Göll’ 1833
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 48 Recto:
Distant View of Salzburg Looking North, with Carts; The Hoher Göll 1833
D30224
Turner Bequest CCC 48
Pencil on off-white lined paper, 99 x 159 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Salzburg’ left centre
Remains of inscription in red ink by Ruskin ‘48’ bottom right
Inscribed in black ink over Ruskin by CF Bell ‘48’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCC–48’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The upper sketch shows a distant view of Salzburg, with the bridge at right and carts in the foreground. Below it is a sketch of the Hoher Göll, a mountain bordering ‘Salzburg’ (inscribed 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, ‘Distant View of Salzburg Looking North, with Carts; The Hoher Göll 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-distant-view-of-salzburg-looking-north-with-carts-the-hoher-r1203357, accessed 30 June 2024.