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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The Strudel, Looking Downstream; Grein, Looking Upstream 1833

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Strudel, Looking Downstream; Grein, Looking Upstream’ 1833
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 60 Verso:
The Strudel, Looking Downstream; Grein, Looking Upstream 1833
D30249
Turner Bequest CCC 60a
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 159 x 99 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The upper sketch shows Burg Werfenstein, a ruined medieval castle situated on the craggy banks of the Danube at Struden. In this view the Castle overlooks a once famously treacherous rapid and whirlpool called the Strudel.1
Grein is depicted in the two views below, showing Greinburg Castle at left and the parish church at right (see also Tate D30247–D30252; Turner Bequest CCC 59a–62).

Alice Rylance-Watson
July 2017

1
Powell 1995, p.42; see also William Beattie, The Danube: Its History, Scenery, and Topography, Splendidly Illustrated, from Sketches Taken on the Spot by Abresch, and Drawn by W.H. Bartlett...engraved by J. Cousen, J.C. Bentley, R. Brandard, and Other Eminent Artists (London, 1844), pp.104–5 and James Planché, Descent of the Danube: From Ratisbon to Vienna, During the Autumn of 1827. With Anecdotes and Recollections, Historical and Legendary, of the Towns, Castles, Monasteries, &c., Upon the Banks of the River, and Their Inhabitants and Proprietors, Ancient and Modern (London, 1828), pp.186–201.

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘The Strudel, Looking Downstream; Grein, Looking Upstream 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-strudel-looking-downstream-grein-looking-upstream-r1203382, accessed 06 May 2025.