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

This sketch continues across folio 27 recto opposite (D22198). Finberg labelled the double-page spread as ‘Haddon Hall.–“Road to Chapel,” &c.’, transcribing Turner’s note on the portion of this drawing which extends over most of D22198, where there are also small, identifiable studies of Haddon Hall.

The topography of the present rather loose drawing is uncertain. It may have been made in the vicinity of the hall, or elsewhere in the hills and valleys of the Peak District. ‘Chapel’ (or ‘Chapl’ as Turner actually seems to have written in haste) probably signifies Chapel-en-le-Frith, which is shown at the opposite, north-western corner from Haddon Hall on Turner’s roughly rectangular sketch map of central Peak District sites (folio 21 recto; D22187). Although Haddon Hall is shown on adjacent pages, the numerous intervening towns and villages might preclude this being another view in its vicinity, as the inscription perhaps implies that the subject is actually rather nearer to Chapel-en-le-Frith; compare one of the sketches around Castleton on folio 37 verso (D22219), inscribed ‘Rd to [?Capl F]’, Castleton being much nearer to Chapel.