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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Salzburg: View down the Salzach to the Bridge and Kapuzinerberg (at Top Right in Instalments) with the Michaelstor on the Left; Salzburg: The Fortress 1833

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Salzburg: View down the Salzach to the Bridge and Kapuzinerberg (at Top Right in Instalments) with the Michaelstor on the Left; Salzburg: The Fortress’ 1833
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 33 Verso:
Salzburg: View down the Salzach to the Bridge and Kapuzinerberg (at Top Right in Instalments) with the Michaelstor on the Left; Salzburg: The Fortress 1833
D30195
Turner Bequest CCC 33a
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 99 x 159 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Michael Gate | Thor1’ centre left; ‘2’ top right, ‘3’ top centre towards right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This view of Salzburg looks down the Salzach towards the Staatsbrücke at centre, with the old town and Michaelstor at left. ‘Michael Gate | Thor1’ is inscribed on the building. The Müllnerkirchecan be seen in the distance beyond the bridge. Reflections from buildings on the opposite side of the Salzach are depicted at right, with the Kapuzinerberg, located on this side of the river, continued in instalments numbered ‘2’ and ‘3’ at top right. The Kapuzinerberg monastery and fortifications are visible. A crucifix, part of the Stations of the Cross situated on the ascent to Kapuzinerberg monastery, can be seen near a turret at top right.
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: View down the Salzach to the Bridge and Kapuzinerberg (at Top Right in Instalments) with the Michaelstor on the Left; Salzburg: The Fortress 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-down-the-salzach-to-the-bridge-and-r1203328, accessed 16 June 2025.