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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The Water of Milk, Near Lockerbie 1831

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Water of Milk, Near Lockerbie’ 1831
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 46 Recto:
The Water of Milk, Near Lockerbie 1831
D25613
Turner Bequest CCLXIV 46
Pencil on white wove paper, 94 x 74 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘W of Milk’ centre
Inscribed in red ink by John Ruskin ‘46’ top right running vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCLXIV – 46’ top right running vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Rather than a ‘road over mountains’ as Finberg described it,1 this sketch, as Turner’s inscription tells us, is of the ‘W[ater] of Milk’, a tributary of the River Annan. Turner passed along the river on his journey from Lockerbie to Langholm. This sketch shows either the river, or the road Turner took winding between hills. There seems to be the roof of a farm building at the right. There is another sketch of the Water of Milk on folio 42 verso (D25606).
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Finberg 1909, II, p.849.
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Thomas Ardill
September 2009

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘The Water of Milk, Near Lockerbie 1831 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 2009, 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-the-water-of-milk-near-lockerbie-r1133973, accessed 18 April 2024.