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; Wasserburg am Inn 1833

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Salzburg: The Monastery on the Kapuzinerberg from across the Salzach with the Houses of the Inner Stein; Wasserburg am Inn’ 1833
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 79 Recto:
Salzburg: The Monastery on the Kapuzinerberg from across the Salzach with the Houses of the Inner Stein; Wasserburg am Inn 1833
D29970
Turner Bequest CCXCVIII 79
Pencil on off-white lined paper, 110 x 165 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Wasserburg’ top centre towards left; ‘River Inn’ centre towards left; ‘Road’ centre
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘79’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CCXCVIII 79’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This view of Salzburg’s Kapuzinerberg and Steingasse is continued from the folio opposite (Tate D29969; Turner Bequest CCXCVIII 78a).
With the sketchbook orientated inversely to the view of Salzburg, Turner has also produced a view of Wasserburg am Inn, a town he passed on the journey from Munich to Salzburg (see also Tate D29966–D29967; Turner Bequest CCXCVIII 77–77a). The view in inscribed ‘Wasserburg’ at top centre towards left, ‘River Inn’ at centre towards left and ‘Road’ centre.

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; Wasserburg am Inn 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-r1203230, accessed 26 August 2025.