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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8

Joseph Mallord William Turner Vienna: View down the Weihburggasse to the Franciscan Church 1833

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 7 Verso:
Vienna: View down the Weihburggasse to the Franciscan Church 1833
D31429
Turner Bequest CCCXI 7 a
Pencil on off-white lined paper, 113 x 184 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Carlo Theatre’ bottom centre to right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is a view of the Franciscan Church from the Weihburggasse, Vienna. The spire of St Stephen’s Cathedral can be seen in the background at right. ‘Carlo Theatre’, inscribed at bottom centre, refers to the demolished Carltheatre in Josefstadt.
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 down the Weihburggasse to the Franciscan Church 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-down-the-weihburggasse-to-the-franciscan-church-r1203443, accessed 03 July 2024.