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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Neidpath Castle, Peebles, From the South; and Peebles Bridge and Church from the West 1834

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Neidpath Castle, Peebles, From the South; and Peebles Bridge and Church from the West’ 1834
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 9 Verso:
Neidpath Castle, Peebles, From the South; and Peebles Bridge and Church from the West 1834
D26112
Turner Bequest CCLXVIII 9a
Pencil on white wove paper, 111 x 181 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is Turner’s penultimate sketch of Neidpath Castle, which he made during an anticlockwise circuit round the ruin on 2 October 1834; see folio 5 (D26103) for details. This view is from the south and shows the collapsed corner of the L-shaped tower house. To the left the land drops away abruptly to the River Tweed. Turner’s final view of the castle from the south-east is opposite this one on folio 10 (D26113).
Boxed off at the bottom right of the page is a small sketch made from nearby that looks west along the Tweed towards Peebles, with the bridge and church tower. These structures can be seen behind the castle in a sketch on folio 8 verso (D26110) and up close from the other side on folio 8 (D26109).

Thomas Ardill
December 2010

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Neidpath Castle, Peebles, From the South; and Peebles Bridge and Church from the 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-south-and-peebles-bridge-r1136040, accessed 25 April 2024.