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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Mountains and Buildings ?on the Danube 1833

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Mountains and Buildings ?on the Danube’ 1833
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 93 Verso:
Mountains and Buildings ?on the Danube 1833
D31595
Turner Bequest CCCXI 93 a
Pencil on off-white lined paper, 184 x 113 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘[?Melk]’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
These sketches show castles, churches and monasteries in a mountainous river valley. What appears to read ‘Melk’ is inscribed at top centre, possibly indicating that these sketches show Melk on the Danube.

Alice Rylance-Watson
September 2017

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Mountains and Buildings ?on the Danube 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-mountains-and-buildings-on-the-danube-r1203602, accessed 04 April 2026.