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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > East Sussex c.1806-20 > Vale of Heathfield Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner A Water Mill among Rocks c.1809-13

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Water Mill among Rocks’ c.1809-13
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 66 Verso:
A Water Mill among Rocks circa 1809–13
D10317
Turner Bequest CXXXVII 73
Pencil on white wove paper, 181 x 228 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘73’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CXXXVII 73’ bottom right
Blind-stamped with the Turner bequest monogram lower right of centre
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Now bound as the verso of the blank folio 66, with the image inverted. For a drawing of a water wheel see folio 65 verso (D10302; Turner Bequest CXXXVII 62a). The location of this mill is unidentified but it more probably in Devon or Cumbria than Sussex.

David Blayney Brown
March 2011

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘A Water Mill among Rocks c.1809–13 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 2011, 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-a-water-mill-among-rocks-r1131349, accessed 19 September 2024.