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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner ?Odin Mine, near Castleton; Peveril Castle from the West; a Hill near Castleton ?1831

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?Odin Mine, near Castleton; Peveril Castle from the West; a Hill near Castleton’ ?1831
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 48 Recto:
?Odin Mine, near Castleton; Peveril Castle from the West; a Hill near Castleton ?1831
D22239
Turner Bequest CCXXXIX 48
Pencil on white wove paper, 191 x 114 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘3’, ‘2’ and possibly ‘1’ centre left, and ‘[?Rd]’ towards bottom centre
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘48’ top right, ascending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCXXXIX – 48’ top right, ascending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
There are three main views here, made with the page turned vertically and separated by horizontal pencil lines, The top sketch is possibly of Odin Mine, below the east side of Mam Tor, about a mile north-west of Castleton up the Odin Sitch stream, apparently with a separate detail of the skyline to the right. There is a similar sketch, apparently inscribed ‘Odin’, on folio 38 verso (D22221); see also folio 22 verso (D22190). As Ian Warrell has noted, the prospect below the centre is of Peveril Castle from the west.1 Below is a profile of one of the nearby Peak District hills, continued very briefly on folio 47 verso opposite (D22238), with a note of the ‘Rd [i.e. Road] to Castl[...]’ in the valley below.
For other views of Peveril Castle, Castleton and Peak Cavern, 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, ‘?Odin Mine, near Castleton; Peveril Castle from the West; a Hill near Castleton ?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-odin-mine-near-castleton-peveril-castle-from-the-west-a-hill-r1148885, accessed 23 September 2024.