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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Castleton and Peveril Castle from the North West; a View from Mam Tor ?1831

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Castleton and Peveril Castle from the North West; a View from Mam Tor’ ?1831
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 46 Verso:
Castleton and Peveril Castle from the North West; a View from Mam Tor ?1831
D22236
Turner Bequest CCXXXIX 46a
Pencil on white wove paper, 191 x 114 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘[?to ...]’ bottom left
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the page turned vertically, there are three sketches here, divided by horizontal pencil lines. The first two are similar views of Peveril Castle from the north-west, as Ian Warrell has noted, above the ravine leading to Peak Cavern, with Castleton below on the left. Warrell has identified the view below as the castle and village seen from Mam Tor, looking east towards Hope.1
For other views of the castle, village and cave, see under folio 1 verso (D22152).

Matthew Imms
April 2014

1
Ian Warrell, notes from 1993 and later in Tate catalogue files.

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Castleton and Peveril Castle from the North West; a View from Mam Tor ?1831 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 2014, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, September 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-castleton-and-peveril-castle-from-the-north-west-a-view-from-r1148882, accessed 26 April 2024.