Joseph Mallord William Turner

Stream, with Steep Banks and a Water Wheel

c.1809–16

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Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of
Vale of Heathfield Sketchbook
Medium
Graphite on paper
Dimensions
Support: 181 × 228 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D10302
Turner Bequest CXXXVII 62 a

Catalogue entry

Drawn with the sketchbook inverted. The location of this wheel (Sussex; Devon; Cumbria?) is unidentified, as is whether it serves a mill or a forge. See also folio 66 verso of the sketchbook (D10317; Turner Bequest CXXXVII 73).

David Blayney Brown
March 2011

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