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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Vienna: View from the Leopoldsberg 1833

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Vienna: View from the Leopoldsberg’ 1833
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 12 Verso:
Vienna: View from the Leopoldsberg 1833
D31439
Turner Bequest CCCXI 12a
Pencil on off-white lined paper, 113 x 184 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Giz’ centre
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This distant view of Vienna was taken from the Leopoldsberg, with Grinzing (inscribed ‘Giz’) at centre. The spire of St Stephen’s Cathedral can be seen.
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.
For other views of Leopoldsberg see Tate D30286, D31430, D31432, D31436, D31438–D31440, D31442–D31443, D31446–D31447, D31449; Turner Bequest CCC 80, CCCXI 8, 9, 11, 12–13, 16–16a, 17a.

Alice Rylance-Watson
September 2017

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Vienna: View from 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-vienna-view-from-the-leopoldsberg-r1203453, accessed 22 July 2024.