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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Watermill beyond a Footbridge 1797-8

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Watermill beyond a Footbridge’ 1797-8
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
A Watermill beyond a Footbridge 1797–8
D02369
Turner Bequest LI B
Pencil on white wove paper, 209 x 268 mm
Inscribed in red ink ‘Li.B’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘LI – B’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The subject is unidentified. For the dating of this drawing and contemporary views in the Oxford area, see under Tate D02358 (Turner Bequest L Q). There is another drawing on the verso (D40264).
Technical notes:
The sheet has been folded vertically down the centre. It is one of a sequence of sixteen Yorkshire and other subjects included in the present subsection which were executed on uniform sheets of paper, as discussed and listed in the Introduction.

Andrew Wilton
January 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘A Watermill beyond a Footbridge 1797–8 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, January 2013, 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-watermill-beyond-a-footbridge-r1150294, accessed 26 April 2024.