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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The Kahlenberg in the Vienna Woods 1833

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Kahlenberg in the Vienna Woods’ 1833
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 11 Verso:
The Kahlenberg in the Vienna Woods 1833
D31437
Turner Bequest CCCXI 11a
Pencil on off-white lined paper, 113 x 184 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Wood’ top centre, ‘Dan’ centre right, descending, ‘Kalenburg’ top right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This rough sketch shows Kahlenberg hill in the Wienerwald or Vienna Woods (inscribed ‘Kalenberg’). ‘Wood’ and ‘Dan’ (presumably short for Danube) are also inscribed.

Alice Rylance-Watson
September 2017

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘The Kahlenberg in the Vienna Woods 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-the-kahlenberg-in-the-vienna-woods-r1203451, accessed 25 November 2024.