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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Watermill c.1798

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Watermill’ c.1798
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
A Watermill c.1798
D08202
Turner Bequest CXIX O
Pencil on buff laid paper, 222 x 316 mm
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram bottom right
Inscribed in red ink ‘CXXII, O’ (crossed through in pencil, with ‘CXIX’ inscribed in pencil above) towards bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CXIX – O’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The location of this mill remains unidentified.
Technical notes:
The sheet is creased vertically in four places.
Verso:
Blank; a splash of brown ink; stamped in brown ink with Turner Bequest monogram.

Andrew Wilton
March 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘A Watermill c.1798 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 2013, 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-watermill-r1175006, accessed 26 April 2024.