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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Windmill and Tree-lined Road 1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Windmill and Tree-lined Road’ 1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 161 Recto:
A Windmill and Tree-lined Road 1824
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Turner Bequest CCXVI 156
Pencil on white wove paper, 118 x 78 mm
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘156’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CCXVI–156’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Here Turner records a windmill and tree-lined road, possibly between Ghent and Bruges, employing fluid handling to do so.

Alice Rylance-Watson
June 2014

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘A Windmill and Tree-lined Road 1824 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, June 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-a-windmill-and-tree-lined-road-r1174659, accessed 26 April 2024.