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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The Churches of Stein and its Town Hall from the Waterfront; View from just outside the Walls of Stein across to Mautern 1833

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Churches of Stein and its Town Hall from the Waterfront; View from just outside the Walls of Stein across to Mautern’ 1833
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 65 Verso:
The Churches of Stein and its Town Hall from the Waterfront; View from just outside the Walls of Stein across to Mautern 1833
D30259
Turner Bequest CCC 65a
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 99 x 159 mm
Partial watermark floral motif
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Golden Traube’ top left
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The principal sketch shows Stein an der Donau from the banks of the Danube, with the town hall at centre and the Frauenbergkirche and Church of St Nicholas behind it (see Tate D30140; Turner Bequest CCC 6). ‘Golden Traube’ (golden ‘grape’), inscribed at top left, probably refers to an inn.
Below Turner depicts the view looking across the Danube to Mautern, taken from outside the town walls of Stein. This view continues onto the folio opposite (Tate D30260; Turner Bequest CCC 66).
Technical notes:
Water stains present, presumably owing to the Tate Gallery flood of 1928.

Alice Rylance-Watson
July 2017

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘The Churches of Stein and its Town Hall from the Waterfront; View from just outside the Walls of Stein across to Mautern 1833 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, July 2017, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, March 2023, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-the-churches-of-stein-and-its-town-hall-from-the-waterfront-r1203392, accessed 26 September 2025.