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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Watermill, with a Barn and Straw Ricks 1797-8

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Watermill, with a Barn and Straw Ricks’ 1797-8
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
A Watermill, with a Barn and Straw Ricks 1797–8
D02367
Turner Bequest L Z
Pencil on white wove paper, 207 x 266 mm
Inscribed in red ink ‘L.z’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘L – Z’ 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).
Technical notes:
The paper 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.
Verso:
Blank; stamped in brown ink with Turner Bequest monogram.

Andrew Wilton
January 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘A Watermill, with a Barn and Straw Ricks 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-with-a-barn-and-straw-ricks-r1150296, accessed 25 April 2024.