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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1836-47 Modern painter > Spring Tour of Northern France 1845 > Boulogne Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Two Windmills by the Sea, ?near Boulogne 1845

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Two Windmills by the Sea, ?near Boulogne’ 1845 (Blank right-hand page of sketchbook)
Blank right-hand page of sketchbook
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 17 Recto:
Two Windmills by the Sea, ?near Boulogne 1845
D35423
Turner Bequest CCCLVIII 18
Pencil on white wove paper, 230 x 326 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘18’ top left, upside down
Stamped in black ‘CCCLVIII 18’ top left, upside down
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This recto, inverted relative to the foliation, is largely untouched by Turner but for some brief pencil lines, not recorded by Finberg,1 continuing the skyline drawn on folio 16 verso opposite (D35421; Turner Bequest CCCLVIII 17).
1
See A.J. Finberg, A Complete Inventory of the Drawings of the Turner Bequest, London 1909, vol.II, p.1168.
Technical notes:
There are some slight patches of transferred watercolour from folio 16 verso opposite (D35421; Turner Bequest CCCLVIII 17).
For the numbering of this leaf, see the entry for the verso (D35424; Turner Bequest CCCLVIII 18v).

John Chu
November 2013

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Two Windmills by the Sea, ?near Boulogne 1845 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, November 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, April 2015, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-two-windmills-by-the-sea-near-boulogne-r1173522, accessed 24 April 2024.