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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Salzburg: View along Judengasse to the Fortress and Dome of the Cathedral from an Upstairs Room in the Höllbräu 1833

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Salzburg: View along Judengasse to the Fortress and Dome of the Cathedral from an Upstairs Room in the Höllbräu’ 1833
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 88 Recto:
Salzburg: View along Judengasse to the Fortress and Dome of the Cathedral from an Upstairs Room in the Höllbräu 1833
D29986
Turner Bequest CCXCVIII 88
Pencil on cream wove paper, 110 x 165 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Montag | Vinstadt | Mitvor | Donostag | Fristag | Samstag | Sontag’ right
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘88’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CCXCVIII 88’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This view of Salzburg Cathedral and Hohensalzburg Fortress beyond was taken from a room in the Höllbräu, an old brewery and inn on the Judengasse, the city’s Jewish quarter. To the right of the view Turner has also attempted to inscribe the days of the week in German:
‘Montag
Vinstadt
Mitvor
Donostag
Fristag
Samstag
Sontag.’
For more views of Salzburg in this sketchbook see Tate D29965, D29969–D29970, D29977; Turner Bequest CCXCVIII 76a, 78a–79, 83. 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).
Verso:
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Alice Rylance-Watson
July 2017

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Salzburg: View along Judengasse to the Fortress and Dome of the Cathedral from an Upstairs Room in the Höllbräu 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-view-along-judengasse-to-the-fortress-and-dome-of-r1203246, accessed 02 August 2025.