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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Schloss Neuhaus (or Maultasch), near Terlano (Terlan); Mountains ?in the Tyrol Alps near Merano (Meran) 1840

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Schloss Neuhaus (or Maultasch), near Terlano (Terlan); Mountains ?in the Tyrol Alps near Merano (Meran)’ 1840
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 27 Verso:
Schloss Neuhaus (or Maultasch), near Terlano (Terlan); Mountains ?in the Tyrol Alps near Merano (Meran) 1840
D32314
Turner Bequest CCCXX 27a
Pencil on white wove paper, 149 x 89 mm
Inscribed by Turner ‘Sloss [?Nehaus]’ right of centre, and ‘[?Meran]’ below centre, upside down
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Finberg later annotated his 1909 Inventory entry including his reading of Turner’s note below the upper view (‘“Schloss Nahun (?).”’): ‘?Nanders’.1 Turner rather seems to be noting the name of the ruined castle of Neuhaus (otherwise known as Maultasch), just south of Terlano (Terlan). Since partly restored, its distinctive square keep and outer defences, following the steep contours of the hillside, overlook the road through the Adige Valley on the western fringes of the Dolomites, between Merano (Meran) and Bolzano (Bozen); see respectively under folios 31 verso (D32322) and 29 verso (D32318).
The lower half of the page appears to comprise two rough inverted mountain views separated by a horizontal pencil line above which is written what may be ‘Meran’.
A long sequence of sketches, mostly characterised as ‘Mountains’ by Finberg (with occasional identifications and transcriptions of the place names marked by the artist), lies between folios 7 recto and 76 recto (D32275–D32411).2 See the sketchbook’s Introduction for the likely overall route between Bregenz and Venice.3

Matthew Imms
September 2018

1
Undated MS note by Finberg (died 1939) in interleaved copy of Finberg 1909, Prints and Drawings Room, Tate Britain, II, opposite p.1030.
2
See Finberg 1909, II, pp.1030–2.
3
See also Cecilia Powell, Turner in Germany, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery, London 1995, pp.65, 81 note 9.

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Schloss Neuhaus (or Maultasch), near Terlano (Terlan); Mountains ?in the Tyrol Alps near Merano (Meran) 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-neuhaus-or-maultasch-near-terlano-terlan-mountains-r1196548, accessed 25 May 2025.