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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Burg Hals and Houses in Hals, to the North from the Path to Passau 1840

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Burg Hals and Houses in Hals, to the North from the Path to Passau’ 1840
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 66 Verso:
Burg Hals and Houses in Hals, to the North from the Path to Passau 1840
D31407
Turner Bequest CCCX 66a
Pencil on cream wove paper, 126 x 198 mm
Partial watermark ‘J. Wha’
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘4’ top left
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The drawing was made with the page turned horizontally. Finberg suggested in might show the ‘Castle of Stauf, near the Walhalla, Ratisbon’,1 meaning the ruins above Donaustauf, east of Regensburg; see under folio 33 verso (D31341); however, as Cecilia Powell recognised,2 it is one of several showing Hals, near Passau, looking north over the houses to the ruins of Burg Hals, climbing the spine of its rocky ridge (now wooded) within a tight meander of the River Ilz. Turner’s ‘4’ is apparently in sequence with three numbered Hals sketches on folio 61 verso (D31397); for various other contemporary views of the village and castle on adjacent pages of this sketchbook and elsewhere, see under folio 58 verso (D31391).

Matthew Imms
September 2018

1
Finberg 1909, II, p.999.
2
See Powell 1995, p.244.

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Burg Hals and Houses in Hals, to the North from the Path to Passau 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-burg-hals-and-houses-in-hals-to-the-north-from-the-path-to-r1196195, accessed 24 April 2024.