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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1836-47 Modern painter > Venice, Austria and Southern Germany ... > Trieste, Graz and Danube Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner The Schlossberg, Graz, with the River Mur towards the Suspension Bridge 1840

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Schlossberg, Graz, with the River Mur towards the Suspension Bridge’ 1840
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 3 Recto:
The Schlossberg, Graz, with the River Mur towards the Suspension Bridge 1840
D30006
Turner Bequest CCXCIX 3
Pencil on cream wove paper, 127 x 198 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘3’ top right, ascending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCXCIX – 3’ top right, ascending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the page turned horizontally, the view as identified by Cecilia Powell1 is south along the Mur, with the Schlossberg rising on the left and the lightly indicated curve of the cables of the suspension bridge which then spanned the river. For other views of the city, see under folio 41 verso (D30079).
1
See Powell 1995, p.242.
Technical notes:
There is staining towards the top left and right from the leather pencil loops secured under the front paste-down (D41222).

Matthew Imms
September 2018

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘The Schlossberg, Graz, with the River Mur towards the Suspension Bridge 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-schlossberg-graz-with-the-river-mur-towards-the-r1196856, accessed 19 April 2024.