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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Four Sketches of the Danube between Wagram and Vienna 1833

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Four Sketches of the Danube between Wagram and Vienna’ 1833
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 80 Verso:
Four Sketches of the Danube between Wagram and Vienna 1833
D30287
Turner Bequest CCC 80a
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 99 x 159 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Wagram [...]’ top centre towards left, ‘K’ top right, ‘Wagram’ centre, ‘Islands on the Danube’ centre right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
These sketches depict the Wagram region, situated between Krems and Vienna on the Danube. ‘Wagram’ is inscribed twice, with ‘K’ referring to Krems at top right. Turner records ‘Islands on the Danube’ at centre right.

Alice Rylance-Watson
July 2017

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Four Sketches of the Danube between Wagram and Vienna 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-four-sketches-of-the-danube-between-wagram-and-vienna-r1203419, accessed 30 June 2024.