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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Marford Mill, Denbighshire 1794

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Marford Mill, Denbighshire’ 1794
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Marford Mill, Denbighshire 1794
D00339
Turner Bequest XXI L
Pencil on white wove paper, 214 x 142 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Marford Mill | Denby Shire’ bottom left
Stamped in brown ink with Turner Bequest monogram towards bottom left
Stamped in black ‘XXI L’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This was used as the basis for the finished watercolour exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1795 (National Museum Wales, Cardiff).1 There is no connection with the drawing that gave its name to the Marford Mill sketchbook (Tate D00283, D00284; Turner Bequest XX 18a–19), which was misidentified by Finberg and in fact shows quite a different mill.
The verso is D40041.

Andrew Wilton
April 2012

1
Wilton 1979, p.313 no.125, reproduced.

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Marford Mill, Denbighshire 1794 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 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-marford-mill-denbighshire-r1141068, accessed 24 April 2024.