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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Guy's Cliffe House and Water Mill, on the River Avon near Warwick 1830

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Guy's Cliffe House and Water Mill, on the River Avon near Warwick’ 1830
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 29 Verso:
Guy’s Cliffe House and Water Mill, on the River Avon near Warwick 1830
D22376
Turner Bequest CCXL 29a
Pencil on white wove paper, 110 x 68 mm
Partial watermark ‘Gat | 18’
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Guy Cliff’ bottom left
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Guy’s Cliffe House, near Warwick, is seen from the north with the footbridge over the River Avon in the foreground, inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation; the building on the right, known as the Saxon Mill, is now a restaurant. As part of unpublished Turner research informed by local knowledge, Dr Bernard Richards confirmed the subject, which Turner noted in this instance.1 See under folio 28 verso (D22374) for the house and other views.

Matthew Imms
August 2013

1
Conversation with the author, 14 May 2013.

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Guy’s Cliffe House and Water Mill, on the River Avon near Warwick 1830 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, August 2013, 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-guys-cliffe-house-and-water-mill-on-the-river-avon-near-r1148526, accessed 16 April 2024.