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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Schloss Persenbeug across the River Danube, with a Boat; the Castle with Ybbs Opposite, Downstream 1840

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Schloss Persenbeug across the River Danube, with a Boat; the Castle with Ybbs Opposite, Downstream’ 1840
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 55 Verso:
Schloss Persenbeug across the River Danube, with a Boat; the Castle with Ybbs Opposite, Downstream 1840
D30107
Turner Bequest CCXCIX 55a
Pencil on cream wove paper, 198 x 127 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Unusually in this sketchbook (as opposed to using single pages horizontally), Turner has worked across a double-page spread for two views, both being continued on folio 56 recto opposite (D30108), under which the subjects, identified by Cecilia Powell,1 are discussed; they are out of sequence with those on adjacent pages, coming from a later stage of this phase of the tour, as set out in the sketchbook’s Introduction.
At the top here is the south front of Schloss Persenbeug, set above the River Danube, flowing to the right in the foreground; the continuation opposite includes a barge. Below, the castle is seen from upriver, looking south-east to Ybbs on the opposite bank on the other page. See also the 1833 Salzburg and Danube sketchbook (Tate D30257–D30258; Turner Bequest CCC 64a, 65)

Matthew Imms
September 2018

1
See Powell 1995, p.240.

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Schloss Persenbeug across the River Danube, with a Boat; the Castle with Ybbs Opposite, Downstream 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-persenbeug-across-the-river-danube-with-a-boat-the-r1196957, accessed 09 May 2024.