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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Neidpath Castle, Peebles, From the North-West 1834

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Neidpath Castle, Peebles, From the North-West’ 1834
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 7 Recto:
Neidpath Castle, Peebles, From the North-West 1834
D26107
Turner Bequest CCLXVIII 7
Pencil on white wove paper, 111 x 181 mm
Inscribed in red ink by John Ruskin ‘7’ bottom left descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCLXVIII – 7’ bottom left descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This sketch of Neidpath Castle near Peebles shows a view from the north-west, and is one in a series of ten sketches made by Turner as he made an anticlockwise circuit around the ruins; see folio 5 (D26103) for further information and references. In this sketch Turner was interested in the general composition rather than in architecture or topography, while the castle is represented as little more than a box. Turner has created a pleasing composition with the serpentine River Tweed at the right and Italianate trees framing the view on either side. He drew the castle and landscape more precisely on the reverse of this page: folio 7 verso (D26108).

Thomas Ardill
December 2010

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Neidpath Castle, Peebles, From the North-West 1834 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, December 2010, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2012, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-neidpath-castle-peebles-from-the-north-west-r1136035, accessed 26 April 2024.