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 Schloss Wallsee from the River Danube 1840

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Schloss Wallsee from the River Danube’ 1840
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 9 Recto:
Schloss Wallsee from the River Danube 1840
D30018
Turner Bequest CCXCIX 9
Pencil on cream wove paper, 198 x 127 mm
Partial watermark ‘J. Wh’
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Wallsee’ towards top left, and ‘Boat Mill’ centre right
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘9’ top left, upside down
Stamped in black ‘CCXCIX – 9’ top left, upside down
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
There are four drawings of Schloss Wallsee here, made in quick succession one above the other and slightly overlapping down the page, with the last the other way up. Turner viewed it on the south bank of the Danube as he sailed past towards the west. For other views of the castle in this sketchbook, and those from 1833, see under folio 8 verso opposite (D30017).
Although Turner’s route upriver was straightforward, his somewhat haphazard use of this book to record it was not. For the geographical sequence of identified views between Vienna and Passau (see under folios 40 recto and 31 recto; D30076, D30058), see this sketchbook’s Introduction.

Matthew Imms
September 2018

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Schloss Wallsee 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-schloss-wallsee-from-the-river-danube-r1196868, accessed 13 May 2024.