'A Watermill', Joseph Mallord William Turner | Tate

Artwork details

Artist

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775‑1851)

Title

A Watermill

Date ?1797

MediumGraphite and watercolour on paper

Dimensionssupport: 238 x 173 mm

Collection

Tate

Acquisition Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

Reference

D00870

Turner Bequest XXXII N

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Catalogue entry

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851

A Watermill ?1797

D00870
Turner Bequest XXXII N

Pencil and grey and brown wash on white wove paper, 238 x 173 mm
Watermark ‘J WHATMAN’
Stamped in black ‘XXXII N’ bottom right

Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

References

For comment on Turner’s interest in watermills in the middle years of the 1790s see the introductory note to the Isle of Wight sketchbook (Tate; Turner Bequest XXIV).

Technical notes:

Recent conservation has removed the works former buff card mount.

Verso:

Blank

Andrew Wilton
April 2012

Read this catalogue entry in full

This catalogue entry is part of: David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, December 2012.

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