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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner View across the Salzach to Schloss Hellbrunn with the Untersberg beyond 1833

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘View across the Salzach to Schloss Hellbrunn with the Untersberg beyond’ 1833
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 18 Verso:
View across the Salzach to Schloss Hellbrunn with the Untersberg beyond 1833
D30165
Turner Bequest CCC 18a
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 99 x 159 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘1’ right centre; ‘Hellbrun’ bottom centre right; ‘Avenue of very fine Trees’ bottom left
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Schloss Hellbrunnon the Salzach is depicted at centre, with the Untersberg Mountain beyond. Hellbrunn Palace, situated to the south of Salzburg near Morzg, was built in the seventeenth century as a summer residence for Markus Sittikus von Hohenems,Prince-Archbishop of Salzburg. ‘1’ is inscribed on the Untersberg at right, with ‘Hellbrun’ inscribed at bottom centre towards right. An ‘Avenue of very fine trees’ can be seen at bottom left. The Untersberg range is continued on the folio opposite (Tate D30166; Turner Bequest CCC 19) in an installation numbered ‘2’.

Alice Rylance-Watson
July 2017

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘View across the Salzach to Schloss Hellbrunn with the Untersberg beyond 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-view-across-the-salzach-to-schloss-hellbrunn-with-the-r1203298, accessed 05 July 2025.