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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Windmill, Locks and a Bridge, Probably on the Grand Junction Canal at Hanwell c.1808

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Windmill, Locks and a Bridge, Probably on the Grand Junction Canal at Hanwell’ c.1808
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 72 Recto:
A Windmill, Locks and a Bridge, Probably on the Grand Junction Canal at Hanwell circa 1808
D08054
Turner Bequest CXIV 72
Pencil on white wove paper, 87 x 117 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘72’ top left, upside down, and ‘998’ bottom left
Stamped in black ‘CXIV – 72’ top left, upside down
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is a slight continuation, showing a figure beside a canal lock, from the left of the full-page view on folio 71 verso opposite (D08053), under which the subject is discussed.

Matthew Imms
January 2012

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘A Windmill, Locks and a Bridge, Probably on the Grand Junction Canal at Hanwell c.1808 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, January 2012, 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-windmill-locks-and-a-bridge-probably-on-the-grand-junction-r1134833, accessed 20 April 2024.