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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > West Country and Yorkshire 1814-17 > Devon Rivers, No.2 Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner ?The Paper Mill on the River Erme at Ivybridge 1814

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?The Paper Mill on the River Erme at Ivybridge’ 1814
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 47 Recto:
?The Paper Mill on the River Erme at Ivybridge 1814
D09724
Turner Bequest CXXXIII 47
Pencil on white wove paper, 110 x 178 mm
Part watermark ‘ows | 2’
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘47’ bottom right, descending vertically, and ‘294’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CXXXIII 47’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Following a view of the bridge on the Erme at Ivybridge on folio 45 recto (D09722), this and the sketch on folio 46 recto (D09723) may show the Stowford paper mill a little upstream, as discussed in the entry for D09723.
Technical notes:
As with the sketches on folios 45 recto and 46 recto (D09722, D09723), the pencil work is coarser than most of the careful topographical studies up to this point in the sketchbook.

Matthew Imms
July 2014

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘?The Paper Mill on the River Erme at Ivybridge 1814 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, July 2014, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, September 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-the-paper-mill-on-the-river-erme-at-ivybridge-r1147275, accessed 29 April 2026.