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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8

Joseph Mallord William Turner ?View near the Leopoldsberg 1833

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 8 Recto:
?View near the Leopoldsberg 1833
D31430
Turner Bequest CCCXI 8
Pencil on off-white lined paper, 113 x 184 mm
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘8’ top right and ‘246’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCCXI – 8’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This view of the Danube valley appears to have been taken on the Leopoldsberg, a hill on the outskirts of Vienna. For other views of Leopoldsberg see Tate D30286, D31432, D31436, D31438–D31440, D31442–D31443, D31446–D31447, D31449; Turner Bequest CCC 80, CCCXI 9, 11, 12–12a, 13, 16–16a, 17a.

Alice Rylance-Watson
September 2017

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘?View near the Leopoldsberg 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-view-near-the-leopoldsberg-r1203444, accessed 25 November 2024.