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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Innsbruck: View along the Maria-Theresien-Strasse to the Town Hall and Stadtturm, with the Annasäule on the Right 1833

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Innsbruck: View along the Maria-Theresien-Strasse to the Town Hall and Stadtturm, with the Annasäule on the Right’ 1833
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 55 Verso:
Innsbruck: View along the Maria-Theresien-Strasse to the Town Hall and Stadtturm, with the Annasäule on the Right 1833
D31525
Turner Bequest CCCXI 55 a
Pencil on off-white lined paper, 113 x 184 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘St anna Col’ top right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Here Turner depicts a scene at Innsbruck looking along the Marie-Theresien-Strasse, with the Spitalskirche at left and the Stadtturm at centre. The Annasäule, a Marian column dedicated to Saint Anne, can be seen at right with the inscription ‘St anna Col’ above it. The column commemorates Saint Anne’s day (26 July) in 1703 when the Tyrol defeated Bavarian armies during the War of Spanish Succession. A statue of Mary tops the column and statues of four saints (St Anne, St George, St Cassian of Imola and St Vigilius of Trent) can be seen at its base.
For more views of Innsbruck in this sketchbook see Tate D31521–D31530, D31543; Turner Bequest CCCXI 53a–58, 65.

Alice Rylance-Watson
September 2017

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Innsbruck: View along the Maria-Theresien-Strasse to the Town Hall and Stadtturm, with the Annasäule on the Right 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-innsbruck-view-along-the-maria-theresien-strasse-to-the-town-r1203538, accessed 26 June 2025.