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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The Danube between Wallsee and Grein, from Successive Viewpoints Moving Downstream; Grein 1833

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Danube between Wallsee and Grein, from Successive Viewpoints Moving Downstream; Grein’ 1833
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 59 Verso:
The Danube between Wallsee and Grein, from Successive Viewpoints Moving Downstream; Grein 1833
D30247
Turner Bequest CCC 59a
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 159 x 99 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Green’ bottom (inverted)
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The Danube between Wallsee and Grein is shown in the top three sketches, from successive viewpoints as Turner moved down the river. Grein (inscribed ‘Green’) is depicted inversely at rear, with Greinburg Castle, part of the Saxe-Coberg and Gotha dukedom, visible at left and the parish church at right. See also Tate D30248–D30250; Turner Bequest CCC 60–61.

Alice Rylance-Watson
July 2017

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘The Danube between Wallsee and Grein, from Successive Viewpoints Moving Downstream; Grein 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-the-danube-between-wallsee-and-grein-from-successive-r1203380, accessed 05 April 2026.