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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Salzburg: The Kapuzinerberg and View up the Salzach from close to the Michaelstor 1833

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Salzburg: The Kapuzinerberg and View up the Salzach from close to the Michaelstor’ 1833
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 21 Verso:
Salzburg: The Kapuzinerberg and View up the Salzach from close to the Michaelstor 1833
D30171
Turner Bequest CCC 21a
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 99 x 159 mm
Partial watermark
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘1’, ‘2’, ‘3’ top left
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This view of Salzburg was taken from a vantage point near the Michaelstor, a seventeenth century gatehouse situated on today’s Mozartplatz. The Kapuzinerberg, fortified with a wall and turrets, can be seen at left, with the Salzach in the foreground.
For more views of Salzburg in this sketchbook see Tate D30133–D30139; D30144–D30222; D30294–D30295; Turner Bequest CCC 2a–5a, 8–47, 84–84a. See also the Heidelberg up to Salzburg sketchbook (Tate D29965, D29969–D29970, D29972, D29977, D29986; Turner Bequest CCXCVIII 76a, 78a–79, 80, 83, 88) and the Vienna up to Venice (Tate D31483–D31486, D31495; Turner Bequest 34a–40a).
Technical notes:
Water stains present, presumably owing to the Tate Gallery flood of 1928.

Alice Rylance-Watson
July 2017

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Salzburg: The Kapuzinerberg and View up the Salzach from close to the Michaelstor 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-salzburg-the-kapuzinerberg-and-view-up-the-salzach-from-r1203304, accessed 02 April 2026.