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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1830-35 Annual tourist > Southern Germany, Austria and Venice ... > Salzburg and Danube Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Buildings 1833

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Buildings’ 1833
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 68 Recto:
Buildings 1833
D30263
Turner Bequest CCC 68
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 99 x 159 mm
Remains of inscription in red ink by Ruskin ‘68’ bottom right
Inscribed in black ink over Ruskin by CF Bell ‘68’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCC–68’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This rough sketch shows the profile of buildings probably recorded as Turner travelled down the Danube towards Vienna (see Tate D30264; Turner Bequest CCC 68a).

Alice Rylance-Watson
July 2017

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Buildings 1833 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, July 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-buildings-r1203396, accessed 05 April 2026.