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 (Inside back cover of sketchbook)
Inside back cover of sketchbook
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Inside Back Cover:
Fortifications at Salzburg, probably on the Mönchsberg 1833
D41224
Turner Bequest
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 159 x 99 mm
Inscribed and signed in pen and black ink by Henry Scott Trimmer ‘No 276 | 83 Leaves | pencil sketches | H.S. Trimmer’right towards centre (inverted)
Signed in pencil by John Prescott Knight ‘JPK’ and Charles Locke Eastlake ‘C.L.E.’ top right towards centre (inverted)
Inscribed in pencil ‘J F. 24’ top right
Inscribed in pencil ‘CCC.’ bottom right (inverted)
Stamped with Turner Bequest monogram top right towards centre
 
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–D30295; Turner Bequest CCC 84–84a).
A description of the sketchbook is inscribed and signed by Henry Scott Trimmer accompanied by the initials of Charles Locke Eastlake and John Prescott Knight: three of the four executors of Turner’s will.

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-r1203428, accessed 30 June 2024.