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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > West Country 1813 > Plymouth, Hamoaze Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Two Water Mills among Trees, Probably in South Devon 1813

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Two Water Mills among Trees, Probably in South Devon’ 1813
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 28 Recto:
Two Water Mills among Trees, Probably in South Devon 1813
D09246
Turner Bequest CXXXI 28
Pencil on white wove paper, 95 x 157 mm
Part watermark ‘Ivy’
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘28’ bottom right, descending vertically, and ‘6’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CXXXI – 28’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the page turned horizontally, there are two mills, with their waterwheels in close succession descending the steep hill on the left, but there is otherwise little to distinguish the rural setting, which is presumably in South Devon along with identified subjects in this sketchbook. The subjects as far as folio 127 recto (D09358) are all identified or presumed sites within a few miles in and around Plymouth, suggesting a series of fairly short excursions.

Matthew Imms
April 2014

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Two Water Mills among Trees, Probably in South Devon 1813 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 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-two-water-mills-among-trees-probably-in-south-devon-r1147973, accessed 23 April 2024.