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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Distant View of the Alps beyond Salzburg (in Three Instalments); Salzburg: View down the Salzach to the Bridge and Müllnerkirche 1833

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Distant View of the Alps beyond Salzburg (in Three Instalments); Salzburg: View down the Salzach to the Bridge and Müllnerkirche’ 1833
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 76 Verso:
Distant View of the Alps beyond Salzburg (in Three Instalments); Salzburg: View down the Salzach to the Bridge and Müllnerkirche 1833
D29965
Turner Bequest CCXCVIII 76 a
Pencil on off-white lined paper, 110 x 165 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘6’ bottom centre, ‘1’, ‘2’, ‘3’ top right to centre right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The Alps around Salzburg are depicted in three instalments (numbered ‘1’, ‘2’, ‘3’ top right to centre right), with a view of Salzburg looking down the Salzach below. The Müllnerkirche can be seen at left.
For more views of Salzburg in this sketchbook see Tate D29969–D29970, D29972, D29977, D29986; Turner Bequest CCXCVIII 78a–79, 80, 83, 88. See also the Salzburg and Danube sketchbook (Tate D30133–D30139; D30143–D30222; D30294–D30295; Turner Bequest CCC 2a–5a, 7a–47, 84–84a) and the Vienna up to Venice (Tate D31483–D31486, D31495; Turner Bequest 34a–40a).

Alice Rylance-Watson
July 2017

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Distant View of the Alps beyond Salzburg (in Three Instalments); Salzburg: View down the Salzach to the Bridge and Müllnerkirche 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-distant-view-of-the-alps-beyond-salzburg-in-three-r1203225, accessed 05 April 2026.