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

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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Walhalla, at Donaustauf near Regensburg, from the River Danube’ 1840
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 44 Recto:
The Walhalla, at Donaustauf near Regensburg, from the River Danube 1840
D31362
Turner Bequest CCCX 44
Pencil on cream wove paper, 126 x 198 mm
Partial watermark ‘atman’
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘44’ top right, ascending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCCX – 44’ top right, ascending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the page turned horizontally, the view is north-east from the sweeping bend of the River Danube south of Donaustauf, with its hilltop castle ruins across the broad valley on the left, and the pilgrimage church of St Salvator lightly indicated below. On the crest near the centre is the imposing classical form of the Walhalla memorial, below which the river flows downstream through open country to the right, and the hills overlooking it further east are continued above near the outer edge. The subject was identified by Cecilia Powell.1
For numerous contemporary views in this sketchbook and elsewhere, see under folio 33 verso (D31341);2 for nearby Regensburg, see under folio 18 verso (D31311).3

Matthew Imms
September 2018

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

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘The Walhalla, at Donaustauf near Regensburg, from the River Danube 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-walhalla-at-donaustauf-near-regensburg-from-the-river-r1196150, accessed 25 April 2024.