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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > West Country and Yorkshire 1814-17 > Devon Rivers, No.1 Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner ?Lydford Watermill 1814

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?Lydford Watermill’ 1814
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 36 Recto:
?Lydford Watermill 1814
D09519
Turner Bequest CXXXII 36
Pencil on white wove paper, 90 x 152 mm
Part watermark ‘y Mill | 1812’
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘36’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CXXXII – 36’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The subject, continued a little way onto folio 35 verso (D09518), seems likely to be the mill once situated at the upper end of Lydford Gorge, east of the village and near the site of the later railway viaduct (now disused).1 For other views around Lydford, see under folio 28 recto (D09510).
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See ‘The Village Today’, Lydford, accessed 31 October 2011, http://www.lydfordparishcouncil.co.uk/lydfordtoday.htm.
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Matthew Imms
June 2014

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘?Lydford Watermill 1814 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, June 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-lydford-watermill-r1147064, accessed 26 April 2024.