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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Road Leading Uphill towards a Windmill 1796-7

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Road Leading Uphill towards a Windmill’ 1796-7
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 30 Verso:
A Road Leading Uphill towards a Windmill 1796–7
D01179
Turner Bequest XXXVII 62
Pencil with watercolour and gouache on blue laid wrapping paper prepared with a red-brown wash, 113 x 93 mm
Stamped in black ‘XXXVII – 62’ bottom left
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The composition continues across folio 31 recto opposite (D01180; Turner Bequest XXXVII 63). It has been suggested (by the British Museum curator Ann Forsdyke1) that this is a view on Lewisham Hill, looking up towards a windmill on Blackheath.

Andrew Wilton
September 2012

1
Personal correspondence with the author.

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘A Road Leading Uphill towards a Windmill 1796–7 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 2012, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, November 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-a-road-leading-uphill-towards-a-windmill-r1149869, accessed 19 April 2024.