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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Salzburg: View from near one of the Stations of the Cross on the Way to Maria Plain 1833

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Salzburg: View from near one of the Stations of the Cross on the Way to Maria Plain’ 1833
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 25 Recto:
Salzburg: View from near one of the Stations of the Cross on the Way to Maria Plain 1833
D30178
Turner Bequest CCC 25
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 99 x 159 mm
Remains of inscription in red ink by Ruskin ‘25’ bottom right
Inscribed in black ink over Ruskin by CF Bell ‘25’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCC–25’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This view was taken to the north of Salzburg city centre, on the way to Basilica Maria Plain. A Station of the Cross and a figure can be seen in the foreground at right. Cloud formations are loosely suggested in the sky.
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 from near one of the Stations of the Cross on the Way to Maria Plain 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-from-near-one-of-the-stations-of-the-cross-on-r1203311, accessed 14 May 2025.