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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Overshot Wheel on the Hill Above Tobermory 1831

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Overshot Wheel on the Hill Above Tobermory’ 1831
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 45 Verso:
Overshot Wheel on the Hill Above Tobermory 1831
D26828
Turner Bequest CCLXXIII 45a
Pencil on white wove paper, 116 x 186 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The sketch on this page has been identified as showing a mill with an overshot wheel that once stood on the hill slopes to the north-west of Tobermory Bay.1 This view is from across the Tobermory River which can be seen at the bottom of the sketch, and at the right Tobermory Harbour can be made out by the masts of boats. For more information about Turner’s time in Tobermory and references to further sketches see folio 1 verso (D26749).

Thomas Ardill
March 2010

1
David Wallace-Hadrill and Janet Carolan, ‘Turner on Mull and Staffa’, [circa 1991], Tate catalogue files, [folio 11].

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Overshot Wheel on the Hill Above Tobermory 1831 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 2010, 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-overshot-wheel-on-the-hill-above-tobermory-r1135186, accessed 25 April 2024.