Joseph Mallord William Turner

Windmill ?on the Outskirts of Abbeville; Objects

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 × 78 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D19936
Turner Bequest CCXVI 193

Catalogue entry

Produced with the sketchbook turned upside down, these jottings show a collection of three unidentified objects and a view of a lane with a windmill and a distant town beyond. The landscape is most probably Abbeville in northern France (see also Tate D19938, D20116–D20117; Turner Bequest CCXVI 194, CCXVII 22–23). Turner has written the note ‘Hayrick and 2 Sails in the Light’ at the rear of the view.

Alice Rylance-Watson
June 2014

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