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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Windmill, from River ?Leaving Bruges for Ostend 1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Windmill, from River ?Leaving Bruges for Ostend’ 1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 176 Recto:
Windmill, from River ?Leaving Bruges for Ostend 1824
D19891
Turner Bequest CCXVI 170
Pencil on white wove paper, 78 x 118 mm
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘170’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CCXVI–170’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Rendered with free line, this sketch depicts a windmill overlooking a river. A boat with an expansive sail is pictured at right with a swift economy of line, while a small dinghy is recorded in the foreground with a single figure standing within it who appears to look back towards land. Loose hatching and fluid scalloped line is used to describe mushrooming clouds and rainfall at left. A similar view is shown on Tate D19892; Turner Bequest CCXVI 171.

Alice Rylance-Watson
June 2014

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Windmill, from River ?Leaving Bruges for Ostend 1824 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, June 2014, 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-windmill-from-river-leaving-bruges-for-ostend-r1174686, accessed 26 April 2024.