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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Sketches, Including a Windmill and a Cart ?in Northern France 1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Sketches, Including a Windmill and a Cart ?in Northern France’ 1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
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Sketches, Including a Windmill and a Cart ?in Northern France 1824
D19583
Turner Bequest CCXVI 16 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 118 x 78 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Blue’ top centre towards right; ‘Cart like Rubens’ | ‘Blue smock frock’, ‘Sabots’ | ‘Tan Cloth’ centre towards bottom
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Here Turner has made swift and cursory sketches of clouds and coastline, a windmill on a cliff, a cart resembling those in Rubens’s pastorals, and locals wearing a ‘Blue smock frock’, ‘sabots’ (a type of clog worn in France and Belgium) and clothing made from ‘Tan Cloth’.

Alice Rylance-Watson
February 2014

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Sketches, Including a Windmill and a Cart ?in Northern France 1824 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, February 2014, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, April 2015, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-sketches-including-a-windmill-and-a-cart-in-northern-france-r1174371, accessed 23 April 2024.