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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The View down the River Danube from the Walhalla, at Donaustauf near Regensburg 1840

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The View down the River Danube from the Walhalla, at Donaustauf near Regensburg’ 1840
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 34 Verso:
The View down the River Danube from the Walhalla, at Donaustauf near Regensburg 1840
D31343
Turner Bequest CCCX 34a
Pencil on cream wove paper, 126 x 198 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘South’ right of centre
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the page turned horizontally, the classical Walhalla memorial is seen from the west at the left, atop the massive sequence of stone steps and platforms descending the steep slope to the River Danube, seen meandering across its broad valley towards the south-east.
The subject was identified by Cecilia Powell.1 For numerous contemporary views of the Walhalla and nearby Donaustauf and St Salvator’s Church in this sketchbook and elsewhere, see under folio 33 verso (D31341);2 for Regensburg, a few miles upriver, see under folio 18 verso (D31311).3

Matthew Imms
September 2018

1
See Powell 1995, p.243.
2
See ibid., pp.70, 82 note 53.
3
See ibid., pp.69, 81 note 45.

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘The View down the River Danube from the Walhalla, at Donaustauf near Regensburg 1840 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 2018, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2019, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-the-view-down-the-river-danube-from-the-walhalla-at-r1196131, accessed 26 April 2024.