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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Peveril Castle from Cavedale ?1831

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Peveril Castle from Cavedale’ ?1831
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 34 Verso:
Peveril Castle from Cavedale ?1831
D22213
Turner Bequest CCXXXIX 34a
Pencil on white wove paper, 114 x 191 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘1’, ‘2’ and ‘3’ respectively top right, bottom left and bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
As Ian Warrell has noted, there are three views of Peveril Castle here:1 a main view from Cave Dale, looking west up to the castle, and two slight sketches framed by pencil lines at the bottom left and right, looking from the south-east and south; Turner has numbered the sketches sequentially. For other views of the castle, Castleton and Peak Cavern, see under folio 1 verso (D22152).

Matthew Imms
April 2014

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

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Peveril Castle from Cavedale ?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-peveril-castle-from-cavedale-r1148859, accessed 14 November 2024.