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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Vienna: The Cathedral from the South; Vöcklabruck 1833

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Vienna: The Cathedral from the South; Vöcklabruck’ 1833
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 21 Recto:
Vienna: The Cathedral from the South; Vöcklabruck 1833
D31456
Turner Bequest CCCXI 21
Pencil on off-white lined paper, 184 x 113 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘V[...]’ ‘Valemb[...]’ towards bottom right
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘21’ top right and ‘246’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCCXI – 21’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The south side of St Stephen’s Cathedral, Vienna, is depicted with the sketchbook turned upside down relative to the foliation. This is a continuation of a view rendered on the folio opposite (Tate D31455; Turner Bequest CCCXI 20a).
With the sketchbook turned in accordance with the foliation Turner also depicts a distant view of Vöcklabruck and a sketch of Schöndorferkirche at Vöcklabruck, inscribed ‘V[...]’ ‘Volemb[...]’. See also Tate D31451, D31462; Turner Bequest CCCXI 18a, 24.

Alice Rylance-Watson
September 2017

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Vienna: The Cathedral from the South; Vöcklabruck 1833 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 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-vienna-the-cathedral-from-the-south-vocklabruck-r1203470, accessed 05 April 2026.