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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Marine subjects c.1803-14 > Spithead Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner A Water Mill 1807

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Water Mill’ 1807
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 57 Verso:
A Water Mill 1807
D06582
Turner Bequest C 52a
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 118 x 187 mm
Stamped in black ‘C 52a’ top right, inverted
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Drawn with the sketchbook inverted. This unidentified watermill, probably on the River Wey, served as the basis of the design (Tate D08140; Turner Bequest CXVII M) for the Liber Studiorum plate, The Water Mill, 1812. However, Turner’s sketch is so slight that in developing it, he must have added elements from imagination or memory.

David Blayney Brown
May 2006

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘A Water Mill 1807 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2006, 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-r1139116, accessed 24 April 2024.