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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner View over Vienna from above Grinzing (in Three Instalments) 1833

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘View over Vienna from above Grinzing (in Three Instalments)’ 1833
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 9 Verso:
View over Vienna from above Grinzing (in Three Instalments) 1833
D31433
Turner Bequest CCCXI 9a
Pencil on off-white lined paper, 113 x 184 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘[...]’ centre
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is a view of Vienna taken from the heights at Grinzing. The view is in three instalments and continues onto the folio opposite (Tate D31434; Turner Bequest CCCXI 10). The skyline of the city centre can be seen in the rear instalment, with St Stephan’s Cathedral at centre left.
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, ‘View over Vienna from above Grinzing (in Three Instalments) 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-over-vienna-from-above-grinzing-in-three-instalments-r1203447, accessed 25 November 2024.