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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The Schlossberg, Graz, from the North 1840

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Schlossberg, Graz, from the North’ 1840
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 45 Verso:
The Schlossberg, Graz, from the North 1840
D30087
Turner Bequest CCXCIX 45a
Pencil on cream wove paper, 127 x 198 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the page turned horizontally, only the top of Graz’s Schlossberg fortress is shown here from the north,1 as a continuation across the gutter from the main part of one of various views on folio 46 recto opposite (D30088).
Turner’s views of Graz are mainly concentrated between folios 41 verso and 48 recto (D30079–D30092), and were likely made in reverse of the sketchbook’s present foliated order; see under D30079 for further discussion.2

Matthew Imms
September 2018

1
See Powell 1995, p.240.
2
See also ibid., pp.66, 81 note 22.

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘The Schlossberg, Graz, from the North 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-from-the-north-r1196937, accessed 26 April 2024.