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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner ?Vienna: Leopoldsberg and Church; ?Innsbruck 1833

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?Vienna: Leopoldsberg and Church; ?Innsbruck’ 1833
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 2 Recto:
?Vienna: Leopoldsberg and Church; ?Innsbruck 1833
D31418
Turner Bequest CCCXI 2
Pencil on off-white lined paper, 113 x 184 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Sl[...]d’
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘2. 246’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CCCXI – 2’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The view parallel to the gutter of the sketchbook may show the Leopoldsberg and Leopoldskirche near Vienna (see, for example, Tate D31440, D31444, D31449; Turner Bequest CCCXI 13, 15, 17a).
The sketch orientated inversely to that described above possibly shows Innsbruck, with the Cathedral at left and Wilten Basilica in the distance.

Alice Rylance-Watson
September 2017

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘?Vienna: Leopoldsberg and Church; ?Innsbruck 1833 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 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-vienna-leopoldsberg-and-church-innsbruck-r1203433, accessed 25 November 2024.