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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8

Joseph Mallord William Turner Vienna: View from the Belvedere Gardens 1833

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 7 Recto:
Vienna: View from the Belvedere Gardens 1833
D31428
Turner Bequest CCCXI 7
Pencil on off-white lined paper, 113 x 184 mm
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘7’ top right and ‘246’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCCXI – 7’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This view of Vienna was taken from the Upper Belvedere and looks across the formal gardens and lake towards the Lower Belvedere palace (in the middle distance at right) and the city beyond. The spire of St Michael’s Church and dome of St Peter’s Church can be seen to the left of St Stephen’s Cathedral at centre.
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: View from the Belvedere Gardens 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-view-from-the-belvedere-gardens-r1203442, accessed 22 July 2024.