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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Sutton Mills: Sutton Courtenay 1805

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Sutton Mills: Sutton Courtenay’ 1805
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 38 Verso:
Sutton Mills: Sutton Courtenay 1805
D05895
Turner Bequest XCIV 38a
Pencil on white wove paper, prepared with a grey wash, 143 x 228 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Sutton Mills’ lower right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
See catalogue note to folio 35 verso of the sketchbook (D05889) for other sketches likely to show scenery around Sutton Courtenay. This example must show the river or mill stream near what is now Mill House; the Mills, used later for paper mills, and a barn a little further upstream were converted into a residence, The Wharf, at the end of the century. The sketch may be related to the contemporary, unfinished oil Weir and Cattle (Tate N02705),1 for which a location on the River Wey had formerly been suggested.2

David Blayney Brown
December 2007

1
Martin Butlin and Evelyn Joll, The Paintings of J.M.W. Turner, revised ed., New Haven and London 1984, p.118 no.167 (pl.167).
2
Letter from Christopher Pinsent, 2 March 1970, cited ibid.

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Sutton Mills: Sutton Courtenay 1805 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, December 2007, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2012, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-sutton-mills-sutton-courtenay-r1130118, accessed 24 April 2024.