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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1830-35 Annual tourist > Southern Germany, Austria and Venice ... > Salzburg and Danube Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner View down the Danube to Persenbeug Castle and Ybbs, with Stormy Sky; Persenbeug Castle, from Successive Viewpoints Moving Downstream 1833

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘View down the Danube to Persenbeug Castle and Ybbs, with Stormy Sky; Persenbeug Castle, from Successive Viewpoints Moving Downstream’ 1833
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 64 Verso:
View down the Danube to Persenbeug Castle and Ybbs, with Stormy Sky; Persenbeug Castle, from Successive Viewpoints Moving Downstream 1833
D30257
Turner Bequest CCC 64a
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 159 x 99 mm
Partial watermark floral motif
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Epeese’ top left
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the sketchbook turned upside down relative to the foliation, Turner depicts Persenbeug Castle in a squared-off sketch at top right. At top left is part of a view continued from the folio opposite (Tate D30258; Turner Bequest CCC 65), showing the view down the Danube to Persenbeug Castle (depicted on CCC 65) and Ybbs (depicted on the present folio and inscribed ‘Epeese’). The sketch below shows Persenbeug Castle with a bridge to its right.
With the sketchbook turned in accordance with the foliation, the remaining views show Persenbeug Castle under a cloudy sky, and a view of Persenbeug Castle looking downstream which continues onto the folio opposite (Tate D30258; Turner Bequest CCC 65).
Technical notes:
Water stains present, presumably owing to the Tate Gallery flood of 1928.

Alice Rylance-Watson
July 2017

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘View down the Danube to Persenbeug Castle and Ybbs, with Stormy Sky; Persenbeug Castle, from Successive Viewpoints Moving Downstream 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-down-the-danube-to-persenbeug-castle-and-ybbs-with-r1203390, accessed 05 April 2026.