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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Watermill above a Rocky Stream 1798

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Watermill above a Rocky Stream’ 1798
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 10 Recto:
A Watermill above a Rocky Stream 1798
D01365
Turner Bequest XXXIX 10
Pencil and gouache on white wove writing paper, 266 x 170 mm
Part watermark ‘1794’
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram bottom right
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘10’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘XXXIX 10’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is possibly a view of Pandy Mill on the River Machno. Turner made a drawing of it in the contemporary Hereford Court sketchbook (Tate D01285; Turner Bequest XXXVIII 33).
Verso:
Blank; stamped in brown ink with Turner Bequest monogram.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘A Watermill above a Rocky Stream 1798 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 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-a-watermill-above-a-rocky-stream-r1173592, accessed 25 April 2024.