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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Castel Trostburg, above Ponte Gardena (Waidbruck) 1833

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Castel Trostburg, above Ponte Gardena (Waidbruck)’ 1833
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 61 Verso:
Castel Trostburg, above Ponte Gardena (Waidbruck) 1833
D31536
Turner Bequest CCCXI 61a
Pencil on off-white lined paper, 113 x 184 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the page turned horizontally, the subject is the medieval Castel Trostburg (now a museum), high above the east bank of the River Isarco (Eisack) at Ponte Gardena (Waidbruck); the castle is seen from the valley, looking south-east, and the craggy hillside is now thick with trees.
Ponte Gardena is about three south-east of Chiusa (Klausen) and the Sabiona (Säben) monastery (possibly seen on folio 75 verso; D31564) near Bressanone (Brixen; perhaps shown on folios 60 verso and 66 verso; D31534, D31546), and roughly ten miles north-east of Bolzano (Bozen; see folio 69 recto; D31551).
Compare the similar drawing in the Venice up to Trento (Tate D31704; Turner Bequest CCCXII 54a), made from slightly further north on Turner’s return journey; that book also contains further sketches of the castle and the other places mentioned.

Matthew Imms
May 2019

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Castel Trostburg, above Ponte Gardena (Waidbruck) 1833 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2019, 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-castel-trostburg-above-ponte-gardena-waidbruck-r1203550, accessed 16 June 2024.