Joseph Mallord William Turner

Sketches, Including a Windmill and a Cart ?in Northern France

1824

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Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of
Rivers Meuse and Moselle Sketchbook
Medium
Graphite on paper
Dimensions
Support: 118 x 78 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D19583
Turner Bequest CCXVI 16 a

Catalogue entry

Here Turner has made swift and cursory sketches of clouds and coastline, a windmill on a cliff, a cart resembling those in Rubens’s pastorals, and locals wearing a ‘Blue smock frock’, ‘sabots’ (a type of clog worn in France and Belgium) and clothing made from ‘Tan Cloth’.

Alice Rylance-Watson
February 2014

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