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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Fortifications at Salzburg, Probably on the Mönchsberg 1833

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Fortifications at Salzburg, Probably on the Mönchsberg’ 1833
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 84 Verso:
Fortifications at Salzburg, Probably on the Mönchsberg 1833
D30295
Turner Bequest CCC 84a
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 159 x 99 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Saltzburg and Danube’ top right descending
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
These sketches show fortifications at Salzburg, probably taken on the Mönchsberg (see Tate D30294; Turner Bequest CCC 84). Turner has also inscribed ‘Saltzburg and Danube’, the name of this sketchbook.

Alice Rylance-Watson
July 2017

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Fortifications at Salzburg, Probably on the Mönchsberg 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-fortifications-at-salzburg-probably-on-the-monchsberg-r1203427, accessed 24 November 2024.