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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Neidpath Castle, Peebles, From the South-East 1834

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Neidpath Castle, Peebles, From the South-East’ 1834
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 10 Recto:
Neidpath Castle, Peebles, From the South-East 1834
D26113
Turner Bequest CCLXVIII 10
Pencil on white wove paper, 111 x 181 mm
Inscribed in red ink by John Ruskin ‘10’ bottom left descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCLXVIII – 10’ bottom left descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is the last in a series of sketches that Turner made of Neidpath Castle. Having arrived from Peebles to the east he made an anticlockwise circuit of the tower house, sketching the architecture and its setting as he went. His progress can be traced over folios 5–7 verso and 8 verso–10 (D26103–D26108, D26110–D26113). Turner stood on the northern bank of the Tweed below the castle to make this sketch, which shows the tower house and the roofless bake house to the right with the steep, wooded bank of the river to the left.
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Thomas Ardill
December 2010

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Neidpath Castle, Peebles, From the South-East 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-south-east-r1136041, accessed 24 April 2024.