'Ogwell Mill, near Newton Abbot', Joseph Mallord William Turner

Artwork details

Artist

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775‑1851)

Title

Ogwell Mill, near Newton Abbot

From Devonshire Coast, No.1 Sketchbook

Turner Bequest CXXIII

Date 1811

MediumGraphite on paper

Dimensionssupport: 117 x 75 mm

Collection

Tate

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

Reference

D08508

Turner Bequest CXXIII 73

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Turner's sketchbooks

View this artwork in the Devonshire Coast, No.1 Sketchbook

Catalogue entry

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851

Folio 76 Recto:

Ogwell Mill, near Newton Abbot 1811

D08508
Turner Bequest CXXIII 73

Pencil on white wove writing paper, 117 x 75 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘73’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CXXIII – 73’ bottom right

Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

References

Without specifying particular folios, Arthur Ebdon mentions three views of Ogwell Mill in his account of Turner and the Teignmouth area. The mill formerly stood beside the River Lemon on Ogwell Mill Lane, north of East Ogwell and west of Newton Abbot. Its distinctive Dutch gable is recorded in an 1811 etching by Samuel Prout, and the picturesque mill, the rather ramshackle buildings around it and its wooded setting are seen in an 1828 lithograph by Thomas Hewitt Williams (both Westcountry Studies Library, Exeter).1

There are further studies on the verso and on folio 77 recto (D08509, D08510; CXXIII 73a, 74), while Bradley Manor, a little down the valley, appears on folio 77 verso (D08511; CXXIII 74a). Turner also sketched the similar mill at Berry Pomeroy, about six miles to the south, on folio 148 recto (D08642; CXXIII 145).

Matthew Imms
June 2011