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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Salzburg: The Monastery on the Kapuzinerberg from across the Salzach with the Houses of the Inner Stein 1833

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Salzburg: The Monastery on the Kapuzinerberg from across the Salzach with the Houses of the Inner Stein’ 1833
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 78 Verso:
Salzburg: The Monastery on the Kapuzinerberg from across the Salzach with the Houses of the Inner Stein 1833
D29969
Turner Bequest CCXCVIII 78 a
Pencil on off-white lined paper, 110 x 165 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This view of the Kapuzinerberg at Salzburg was taken from the west bank of the Salzach, somewhere around today’s Rudolfskai. A Capuchin monastery was erected at the top of Kapuzinerberg hill, on the site of a former medieval fortress. The Church of St Johannes am Imberg can be seen at the bottom of the hill, to the left. The lower part of Turner’s view continues onto the folio opposite (Tate D29970; Turner Bequest CCXCVIII 79), and shows the Steingasse. This ancient street, nestled between the foot of the Kapuzinerberg and the river, was one of the principal routes through which goods imported and exported on the Salzach were transported to and from the city.
For more views of Salzburg in this sketchbook see Tate D29965, D29970, D29972, D29977, D29986; Turner Bequest CCXCVIII 76a, 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, ‘Salzburg: The Monastery on the Kapuzinerberg from across the Salzach with the Houses of the Inner Stein 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-monastery-on-the-kapuzinerberg-from-across-the-r1203229, accessed 05 September 2025.