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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Salzburg: View up the Salzach to the Fortress, Stift Nonnberg, Cathedral and Bridge 1833

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Salzburg: View up the Salzach to the Fortress, Stift Nonnberg, Cathedral and Bridge’ 1833
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 34 Verso:
Salzburg: View up the Salzach to the Fortress, Stift Nonnberg, Cathedral and Bridge 1833
D30197
Turner Bequest CCC 34a
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 99 x 159 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Salzburg is depicted from the Salzach, with the Staatsbrückein the foreground. The Cathedral and distant tower of the Stift Nonnberg can be seen at centre right, with the Fortress rising above the Old Town from the Festungsberg beyond.
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 up the Salzach to the Fortress, Stift Nonnberg, Cathedral and Bridge 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-up-the-salzach-to-the-fortress-stift-nonnberg-r1203330, accessed 05 April 2026.