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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1836-47 Modern painter > The Second Meuse-Moselle Tour 1839 > Spa, Dinant and Namur Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Houses and Mill by a Stream, Probably on the Outskirts of Huy 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Houses and Mill by a Stream, Probably on the Outskirts of Huy’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 7 Verso:
Houses and Mill by a Stream, Probably on the Outskirts of Huy 1839
D28055
Turner Bequest CCLXXXVII 7 a
Pencil on white wove writing paper, 154 x 94 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the sketchbook turned upside down relative to the foliation, Turner has roughly sketched houses and a watermill in a pastoral setting. The waterwheel of the mill is suggested on the right. Cecilia Powell has proposed that the drawing was taken at the outskirts of Huy in the province of Liege, Belgium.1
A similar view of Huy with watermills can be found in the Rivers Meuse and Moselle sketchbook of 1824 (Tate D19628; Turner Bequest CCXVI 39).

Alice Rylance-Watson
April 2013

1
Powell 1991, Appendix, p.213.

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Houses and Mill by a Stream, Probably on the Outskirts of Huy 1839 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, November 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-houses-and-mill-by-a-stream-probably-on-the-outskirts-of-huy-r1150329, accessed 19 April 2024.