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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The Leopoldsberg from the Kahlenberg Cemetery; Vienna from the Kahlenberg 1833

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Leopoldsberg from the Kahlenberg Cemetery; Vienna from the Kahlenberg’ 1833
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 14 Verso:
The Leopoldsberg from the Kahlenberg Cemetery; Vienna from the Kahlenberg 1833
D31443
Turner Bequest CCCXI 14a
Pencil on off-white lined paper, 113 x 184 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
From a vantage point in the Kahlenberg Cemetery, Vienna, Turner depicts the Leopoldsberg and its church at left with the Danube valley beyond. A view of Vienna from the Kahlenberg is rendered parallel to the gutter of the sketchbook.
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, ‘The Leopoldsberg from the Kahlenberg Cemetery; Vienna from the Kahlenberg 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-leopoldsberg-from-the-kahlenberg-cemetery-vienna-from-r1203457, accessed 25 November 2024.