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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Vienna: Three Views of the Karlskirche (One Looking Westwards) 1833

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Vienna: Three Views of the Karlskirche (One Looking Westwards)’ 1833
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 4 Verso:
Vienna: Three Views of the Karlskirche (One Looking Westwards) 1833
D31423
Turner Bequest CCCXI 4a
Pencil on off-white lined paper, 113 x 184 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
These rough sketches show the Karlskirche, a baroque church located on the Karlsplatz in Vienna. The Karlskirche was built for Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor, and designed by Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach, a favoured architect of the Habsburgs. The lower left sketch extends onto the folio opposite (Tate D31424; Turner Bequest CCCXI 5).
For more views of Vienna in this sketchbook, see Tate D31417, D31421–D31423, D31425–D31440, D31442–D31442, D31446–D31452, D31454–D31458, D31470–D31471, D31542, D31592, D31596; Turner Bequest CCCXI 1a, 3a–4a, 5v–13, 14–15, 16–19, 20–22, 28–28a, 64a, 92, 94. For views in the 1840 Trieste, Graz and Danube sketchbook see Tate D30008, D30011, D30013, D30019, D30076–D30077; Turner Bequest CCXCIX 4, 5a, 6a, 9a, 40–40a.

Alice Rylance-Watson
September 2017

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Vienna: Three Views of the Karlskirche (One Looking Westwards) 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-three-views-of-the-karlskirche-one-looking-westwards-r1203438, accessed 25 November 2024.