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 Mountains with a Castle on the Skyline, ?between Trieste and Graz 1840

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Mountains with a Castle on the Skyline, ?between Trieste and Graz’ 1840
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 51 Verso:
Mountains with a Castle on the Skyline, ?between Trieste and Graz 1840
D30099
Turner Bequest CCXCIX 51a
Pencil on cream wove paper, 127 x 198 mm
Partial watermark ‘atman’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the page turned horizontally, towards the outer edge the more prominent of two sketches shows a jagged skyline, apparently surmounted by fortifications or a ruin. There are possibly buildings in the valley below to the left. Below, inverted relative to the first view, is a slighter variant.
As set out in this sketchbook’s Introduction, the general flow of Turner’s itinerary is in reverse of the Turner Bequest foliation, and this page falls within a sequence between folios 55 recto and 49 recto (D30094–D30106) likely (with reservations) to show his route north-east between Trieste to Graz (see respectively under folios 57 recto and 41 verso; D30109, D30079) through the rugged terrain of modern-day Slovenia and southern Austria. See under D30094 for further discussion.
Technical notes:
There is a pale brown stain towards the top right, at the outer edge.

Matthew Imms
September 2018

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Mountains with a Castle on the Skyline, ?between Trieste and Graz 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-mountains-with-a-castle-on-the-skyline-between-trieste-and-r1196949, accessed 26 April 2024.