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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Passau, across the River Inn from the Mariahilfberg 1840

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Passau, across the River Inn from the Mariahilfberg’ 1840
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 51 Verso:
Passau, across the River Inn from the Mariahilfberg 1840
D31377
Turner Bequest CCCX 51a
Pencil on cream wove paper, 126 x 198 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the page turned horizontally, Passau is shown to the north across the River Inn from the Mariahilfberg, as Cecilia Powell has noted; the view is continued to the right on folio 52 recto opposite (D31378), with the two drawings forming a disjointed panorama.1 Here, the cathedral is identifiable by its dome to the right of centre above the Innbrücke, against the backdrop of the slopes on the far side of the River Danube, out of sight beyond the central Altstadt peninsula.
Although the various defensive towers along the Innstadt bank below are no longer evident, a similar overall prospect is still possible from in front of the Mariahilf church. For numerous contemporary views of Passau in this sketchbook and elsewhere, see under folio 48 verso (D31371).

Matthew Imms
September 2018

1
See Powell 1995, p.243.

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Passau, across the River Inn from the Mariahilfberg 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-passau-across-the-river-inn-from-the-mariahilfberg-r1196165, accessed 18 April 2024.