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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Launceston from the North-East, with a Mill Stream in the Foreground 1814

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Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 74 Recto:
Launceston from the North-East, with a Mill Stream in the Foreground 1814
D09820
Turner Bequest CXXXIV 28
Pencil on white wove paper with gilt edges, 179 x 254 mm
Watermark ‘J Whatman | 1811’ (lower part of date trimmed at edge of leaf)
Inscribed by Turner ‘mill stream’ bottom left
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CXXXIV – 28’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Launceston is seen here from the valley of the River Kensey, looking south-west; old Ordnance Survey maps indicate a mill on that side. For other views of Launceston Castle and the surrounding town, see under folio 70 recto (D09873; Turner Bequest CXXXIV 72).
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Matthew Imms
July 2014

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Launceston from the North-East, with a Mill Stream in the Foreground 1814 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, July 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-launceston-from-the-north-east-with-a-mill-stream-in-the-r1147434, accessed 26 April 2024.