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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Distant view of ?Vöcklabruck; Vienna: The Cathedral Spire 1833

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Distant view of ?Vöcklabruck; Vienna: The Cathedral Spire’ 1833
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 20 Recto:
Distant view of ?Vöcklabruck; Vienna: The Cathedral Spire 1833
D31454
Turner Bequest CCCXI 20
Pencil on off-white lined paper, 113 x 184 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘New’ top centre ‘Val[...] | Road’, ‘[...]’, ‘Road’ top right
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘20’ top right and ‘246’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCCXI – 20’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
A distant view of what appears to be Vöcklabruck and its parish church is depicted parallel to the gutter of the sketchbook. Inscriptions at top right read ‘Val[...] | Road’, ‘[...]’, ‘Road’. See also Tate D31451; Turner Bequest CCCXI 18a.
The spire of Vienna’s Cathedral of St Stephen is also recorded, continued from a study of the south-west façade of the building rendered on Tate D31452–D31452; Turner Bequest CCCXI 18a–19.
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, ‘Distant view of ?Vöcklabruck; Vienna: The Cathedral Spire 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-distant-view-of-vocklabruck-vienna-the-cathedral-spire-r1203468, accessed 30 June 2024.