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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1830-35 Annual tourist > Southern Germany, Austria and Venice ... > Salzburg and Danube Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Spitz and Tausendeimerberg, Looking Downstream; The Hinterhaus and Spitz, Looking Downstream; The Hinterhaus, Spitz 1833

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Spitz and Tausendeimerberg, Looking Downstream; The Hinterhaus and Spitz, Looking Downstream; The Hinterhaus, Spitz’ 1833
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 75 Verso:
Spitz and Tausendeimerberg, Looking Downstream; The Hinterhaus and Spitz, Looking Downstream; The Hinterhaus, Spitz 1833
D30277
Turner Bequest CCC 75a
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 159 x 99 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Spisss’ top centre
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The town of Spitz on the Danube with Tausendeimerberg Hill and Hinterhaus Fortress is depicted in the uppermost view, with the Hinterhaus and Spitz (inscribed ‘Spisss’) shown again in the view below. The remaining five sketches show the fortress of Hinterhaus from various aspects as Turner journeyed down the Danube. Tausendeimerberg Hill (the ‘hill of a thousand buckets) is so called because of the hundreds of grapevines growing there and elsewhere in the Wachau valley. See also Tate D30278; Turner Bequest CCC 76.

Alice Rylance-Watson
July 2017

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Spitz and Tausendeimerberg, Looking Downstream; The Hinterhaus and Spitz, Looking Downstream; The Hinterhaus, Spitz 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-spitz-and-tausendeimerberg-looking-downstream-the-hinterhaus-r1203409, accessed 20 August 2025.